Chapter 8 Flashcards
Text contained within double or single quotation marks
string
Converts a JSON string value to an object
parse()
Separates alternate sets of substrings in a regular expression
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A standardized set of characters from many of the world’s languages
Unicode
Removes the last element from the end of an array
pop()
Combines array elements into a string
join()
Compares strings according to the particular sort order of a language or country
localeCompare() method
Special character that defines pattern matching rules in a regular expression
metacharacter
Metacharacter that specifies the quantity of a match
quantifier
Adds one or more elements to the end of an array
push()
The ____ object contains methods and properties for working with regular expressions in JavaScript.
RegExp
To sort elements of an array alphabetically, you use the ____ method.
sort()
The fromCharCode() method is called a ____ method because it is not used as a method of any string objects (which can be literal strings or variables) in your scripts.
static
To allow a string to contain an alternate set of substrings, you separate the strings in a regular expression pattern with the ____ metacharacter.
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The ____ method converts a text string to lowercase.
toLowerCase()
The String class ____ property returns the number of characters in a string.
length
The ____ method adds one or more elements to the end of an array.
push()
The ____ method constructs a text string from Unicode character codes that are passed as arguments.
fromCharCode()
A pattern that matches the beginning or end of a line is called a(n) ____.
anchor
The JavaScript String class includes the ____ method, which creates a new string by combining strings that are passed as arguments.
concat()
The ____ method removes and returns the first element from the beginning of an array.
shift()
You use ____ classes in regular expressions to treat multiple characters as a single item.
character
Regular expression patterns consist of literal characters and ____.
metacharacters
The ____ method of the String class returns the position number in a string of the first character in the argument.
indexOf()
To manipulate arrays in your scripts, you use the methods and length property of the ____ class.
Array
The ____ method converts a text string to uppercase.
toUpperCase()
You use the ____ method of the String class to split a string into an indexed array.
split()
The ____ method returns the position number in a string of the first instance of the first character in the pattern argument.
search(pattern)
To convert a JavaScript object to a JSON string, you use the ____ method.
stringify()
Characters contained in a set of parentheses within a regular expression are referred to as a subexpression or ____.
subpattern
