Run results for: RegEx string.match() vs string.length() to validate text input

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

string.length()

14.4M/s

RegEx string.match()

9.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ string.length()	14,425,626 Ops/sec
RegEx string.match()	9,798,192 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = '1b3d5f78g';
var valid = false;

Tests: