What is wrong with my date regex? [duplicate]

Answer 1

The /g was causing problem. Following code works fine.

<div id="test"></div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var reg = /Date\(\d+\)/; //REGEX WITHOUT g
        var d="Date(1286445750000)";
        $(function(){
            var $d=$("div#test");
            for(var i=0;i<100;i++){
                if(reg.test(d)){
                    $d.html($d.html()+"<br/>Matched: ["+d+"]");
                }
                else{
                    $d.html($d.html()+"<br/>Not Matched: ["+d+"]");
                }
            }
        });
    </script>

Answer 2

In your case remove the g modifier from the end, for example:

var dateRegex = /\/Date\((\d+)\)\//;
dateRegex.test("Date(1286445750000)"); // true
dateRegex.test("Date(1286445750000)"); // true
dateRegex.test("Date(1286445750000)"); // true
dateRegex.test("Date(1286445750000)"); // true
dateRegex.test("Date(1286445750000)"); // true

It's a bug with the way regexes are implemented in ECMAScript 3, there's a great post on the details here.