Run results for: RegEx vs For Loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

RegEx

8.2M/s

For Loop

1.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ RegEx	8,214,564 Ops/sec
For Loop	1,588,040 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

var string = "passw)odas4gsdfsdf";

Script Preparation code:

var string = "passw)odas4gsdfsdf";

Tests:

RegEx
let isPasswordValid = false; const number = new RegExp('(?=.*[0-9])'); isPasswordValid = number.test(string);
For Loop
let isPasswordValid = false; for (let i = 0; i < string.length; i++) { let code = string.charCodeAt(i); if (code >= 48 && code <= 57) { isPasswordValid = true; break; } }