Run results for: RegEx vs For Loop 4

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

For Loop

6.1M/s

RegEx

3.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ For Loop	6,136,472 Ops/sec
RegEx	3,430,198 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

var string = "passw)odas4gsdfsdf";

Script Preparation code:

var string = "passw)odas4gsdfsdf";

Tests:

For Loop
const FORBIDDEN_CHARACTERS = [`<`, `>`, `&`, `$`]; for (const character of FORBIDDEN_CHARACTERS) { const position = string.indexOf(character); if (position !== -1) { return INVALID; } }
RegEx
const FORBIDDEN_CHARACTERS = [`<`, `>`, `&`, `$`]; const forbiddenRegex = new RegExp(`[${FORBIDDEN_CHARACTERS.join('')}]`); const match = forbiddenRegex.exec(string); if (match) { return INVALID; }