Description

The global property specifies whether or not the 'g' modifier is set. The property returns true if the modifier is set, false otherwise.

This property has the form:

RegExpObject.global

Examples

The following example shows the basic use of this property.

<script>
var pattern=/Java/g;
if(pattern.global)
{
  document.write("g mod: set");
}
else
{
  document.write("g mod: not set");
}
</script>

This produces the following result:

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