Regular Expression Syntax Sugar

console.log("Hello World".match(/\w/))

Example from Perl:

print "Hello World".match(/\w/)

Example from Ruby:

puts "Hello World".match(/\w/)

Example from Elixir:

~r/integer: \d+/

Languages with Regular Expression Syntax Sugar include JavaScript, Perl, Ruby, TypeScript, Elixir, Dart, CoffeeScript, MIPS architecture, JS++, Goal

Languages without Regular Expression Syntax Sugar include Python, C, C++, Objective-C, Cython, C3, Speedie, progsbase, Jule, Tick C

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