.matches() doesn't work

I tried using: req.assert('field', 'error').matches(/myregex/); Is this the right way to call the method ‘matches’? Because chriso/validator.js uses matches(str, pattern [, modifiers]).

[martinliptak]

This doesn’t work:

checkSchema({
  name: {
     matches: /\.(pdf)|(doc)|(docx)|(rtf)$/g
  }
})

This works:

checkSchema({
  name: {
    matches: {
      options: [/\.(pdf)|(doc)|(docx)|(rtf)$/, 'g']
    }
  }
})

[smarkdurbin]

.matches() is not working.

*EDIT: It looks like you MUST set the “modifiers” param in this function for it to work and remove it from your pattern param Ex: (this is in my controller for a data type called ‘viewers’)

// // Validate fields.
    body('viewer_name').isLength({ min: 1 }).trim().withMessage('Viewer Name must be specified.')
        .matches(/^([0-9A-z\ \_]+)$/, 'g').withMessage('<strong>Viewer Name</strong> contains invalid characters<br>&nbsp; &#x21B3; upper/lower case letters, numbers, and underscores only')