Run results for: string.replace vs regexp.matchAll vs regexp.exec

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.3.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Tests:

string.replace
const s = 'Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple'; const r = new RegExp('(^|\\P{L})(Apple)($|\\P{L})', 'giu'); s.replace(r, '*****');
regexp.matchAll
const s = 'Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple'; const r = new RegExp('(^|\\P{L})(Apple)($|\\P{L})', 'giu'); const n = []; const matches = [...s.matchAll(r)]; matches.forEach((match) => { // do something // n.push(match.index); });
regexp.exec
const s = 'Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple'; const r = new RegExp('(^|\\P{L})(Apple)($|\\P{L})', 'giu'); const n = []; let execResults; while ((execResults = r.exec(s)) !== null) { // do something // n.push(execResults.index); }