My regular expression is not working as expected

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//regex: 
/(visitedcount=)(\d{1,})/gi
//string:
visitedcount=2

I’m using the capturing groups parentheses so it this regex only matches against visitedcount=numbers. I want str.match(regex) to return visitedcount= and 2. However, it returns one array which is just visitedcount=2. Am I misunderstanding something?

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String#match returns whole match. To get capturing groups, you should use RegExp#exec method

Your code will be:

let match = regExp.exec(str);
// do match[n] for nth capturing group
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Thanks! This’ll work perfectly.

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