Regular Expressions 101

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Regular Expression
ECMAScript (JavaScript)

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^\s*function\s+(\w+)\s*\(
/
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Description

Extracts the name of the outer function. Useful to get the name of a function reference using fn.toString().

Submitted by Jack A. - 11 years ago