Symbol.matchAll - JavaScript | MDN (original) (raw)

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The Symbol.matchAll static data property represents the well-known symbol Symbol.matchAll. The String.prototype.matchAll() method looks up this symbol on its first argument for the method that returns an iterator, that yields matches of the current object against a string.

For more information, see RegExp.prototypeSymbol.matchAll and String.prototype.matchAll().

Try it

const re = /[0-9]+/g;
const str = "2016-01-02|2019-03-07";
const result = re[Symbol.matchAll](str);

console.log(Array.from(result, (x) => x[0]));
// Expected output: Array ["2016", "01", "02", "2019", "03", "07"]

Value

The well-known symbol Symbol.matchAll.

Examples

Using Symbol.matchAll

const str = "2016-01-02|2019-03-07";

const numbers = {
  *[Symbol.matchAll](str) {
    for (const n of str.matchAll(/[0-9]+/g)) yield n[0];
  },
};

console.log(Array.from(str.matchAll(numbers)));
// ["2016", "01", "02", "2019", "03", "07"]

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also