Regular Expressions - asterisk

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I find this challenge’s instructions pretty confusing. I made the hard part bold.

The last challenge used the plus + sign to look for characters that occur one or more times. There’s also an option that matches characters that occur zero or more times.

The character to do this is the asterisk or star: *.

let soccerWord = "gooooooooal!";
let gPhrase = "gut feeling";
let oPhrase = "over the moon";
let goRegex = /go*/;
soccerWord.match(goRegex); // Returns ["goooooooo"]
gPhrase.match(goRegex); // Returns ["g"]
oPhrase.match(goRegex); // Returns null

Create a regex chewieRegex that uses the * character to match all the upper and lower"a" characters in chewieQuote. Your regex does not need flags, and it should not match any of the other quotes.

somehow this worked:

let chewieQuote = "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh!";
let chewieRegex = /Aa*/; // Change this line
let result = chewieQuote.match(chewieRegex);

Here are tests:

1. Your regex chewieRegex should use the * character to match zero or more a characters.
2. Your regex chewieRegex should match 16 characters.
3. Your regex should match “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”.
4. Your regex should not match any characters in “He made a fair move. Screaming about it can’t help you.”
5. Your regex should not match any characters in “Let him have it. It’s not wise to upset a Wookiee.”

4th test is especially confusing. there are lowercase ‘a’, why should I not(added after edit) match them?

Add a Link to the page with the problem

https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/regular-expressions/match-characters-that-occur-zero-or-more-times

[JESii]

@scissorsneedfoodtoo This bug has nothing to do with the asterisk being tricky. It has to do with the fact that the instructions are just plain wrong.

The instructions say:

Create a regex chewieRegex that uses the * character to match all the upper and lower"a" characters in chewieQuote. Your regex does not need flags, and it should not match any of the other quotes.

This means a RegEx like /[Aa]*/g

What the instructions should say is:

Create a regex chewieRegex that uses the * character to match all the upper and lower"a" characters in chewieQuote that have an initial “A”. Your regex does not need flags, and it should not match any of the other quotes.

Now we get to the desired RegEx of /A[Aa]*/g

[joker314]

I’ll file a PR soon¹ to resolve the issue of wording.

¹ - 0 to 2 days