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comparing the performance of the RexExp object's exec() method vs. the String object's match() method for regular expression matching

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<script>
  var url = "http://www.google.com/some/long/thing?foo=bar"
  var re = /https?:\/\/([^\/]+)/i;
</script>

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re.test(url)

url.match(re)

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• Revision 2: published by Norm Yee on 26th August 2011
• Revision 3: published on 31st January 2012
• Revision 4: published by ben on 8th February 2012

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