What does this do?
var INTEGER_SINGLE = /\d+/;
What do the forward slashes mean? How about the backslash? Does d
mean digit?
That creates a regular expression that matches one or more digits.
Anything inside / /
is a regular expression. \d
matches a digit, and +
is the positive closure, which means one or more.
Having said that, depending on what this regex is supposed to do, you may want to change it to:
var INTEGER_SINGLE = /^\d+$/;
^
matches the beginning of the string, and $ the end. The end result would be that any strings you try to match against the regex would have to satisfy it in the string's entirety.
var INTEGER_SINGLE = /^\d+$/;
console.log(INTEGER_SINGLE.test(12)); //true
console.log(INTEGER_SINGLE.test(12.5)); //false
Of course if the regex is supposed to only match a single integer anywhere in the string, then of course it's perfect just the way it is.