I'm trying to detect if a string contains Russian (cyrillic) characters or not. I'm using this code:
term.match(/[\wа-я]+/ig);
but it doesn't work – or in fact it just returns the string back as it is.
Can somebody help with the right code?
Thanks!
Perhaps you meant to use the RegExp
test
method instead?
/[а-яА-ЯЁё]/.test(term)
Note that JavaScript regexes are not really Unicode-aware, which means the i
flag will have no effect on anything that's not ASCII. Hence the need for spelling out lower- and upper-case ranges separately.
Use pattern /[\u0400-\u04FF]/
to cover more cyrillic characters:
// http://jrgraphix.net/r/Unicode/0400-04FF
const cyrillicPattern = /[\u0400-\u04FF]/;
console.log('Привіт:', cyrillicPattern.test('Привіт'));
console.log('Hello:', cyrillicPattern.test('Hello'));