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a=/(?:"Tarzan"|(Tarzan))\s+and JillOfTheJungle/; matched = !!a.exec(x)[1] Works fine. People often forget to solve the problem they need to solve (match x

• jameshart 11y ago
  "People often forget to solve the problem they need to solve (match x), and instead work on other things (find a regex to match x)." Completely agree. One common mistake is building a complex regex to match the elements you want to find from a string, when an easier approach is to split the string on a simple regex that matches the things you want to throw away.