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JavaScript Regular Expressions in JavaScript Validating a Form Validating a Username

karan Badhwar
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karan Badhwar
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karan Badhwar
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^[a-z]+$

Why is this working, if I put abcDefg, the tool tip is still there, but as per the code I understood, while writing abcD 'D' was once at the end, but then we overwrite it with efg why the tool tip is still there?

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Rohald van Merode
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Hi karan karan,

That happens because of the $ at the end of your RegEx. This indicates that the string has to finish with the part in front of it. Which is in this case is lowercased letters. Since you're using both the ^ and $ here and there's nothing else in between other than the lowercased letters it will only pass when the string both starts and ends with lowercased letters.

Hope this helps 🙂