Help with regex's

[sharp tinsel]

How do I map this out into an array of role ids?

I have this embed and I wanna match all of the roles and then get their role ids from it

I'm trying to use this but idk how to map or forEach it

const msg = await interaction.channel.messages.fetch('1112072615981494292').catch(() => {}); 
if(!msg) return; 
const string = msg.embeds[0].description; 
const m = string.matchAll(/<@&(?<id>\d{17,20})>/g); 
m.forEach((my) => console.log(my))

I'm not too sure that's the correct usage of the global operator either so please do correct me 😅, I read somethings online and that looked correct

[shell geyser]

Well, what happens when you use that code?

[sharp tinsel]

don't mind the wording either 😅

[shell geyser]

Ah, yeah. m is an iterator. You need to for..of it or […m] spread it

[sharp tinsel]

Ah, ok. So iterator here means...?

[rancid hazel]

a thing used for iteration

[arctic yoke]

Iterator
An Iterator object is an object that conforms to the iterator protocol by providing a next() method that returns an iterator result object. The Iterator.prototype object is a hidden global object that all built-in iterators inherit from. It provides a @@iterator method that returns the iterator object itself, making the iterator also iterable.

[sharp tinsel]

As I thought iterator means you could, well iiterate over it

[rancid hazel]

(global flag btw not operator)

[rancid hazel]

you can

[sharp tinsel]

ahhhhhh

[rancid hazel]

forEach is an api specific to arrays

[sharp tinsel]

Oh, what's the definition of it 😅

[shell geyser]

for..of is a form of iteration

[sharp tinsel]

Ahhh, so not for object in an object

[rancid hazel]

what?

oh

yeah no forEach is just a typical method

[rancid hazel]

?

[sharp tinsel]

and the defintion of the gloal thingy?

[rancid hazel]

im just correcting you on the term there

[sharp tinsel]

yh so im asking for the correct term lol

[rancid hazel]

/(?flags)/flags

g, i, m, etc are flags

not operators

[sharp tinsel]

ah, flags

what does i and m do?

Thanks guys btw haha

[rancid hazel]

case __i__nsensitive
__m__ultiline

[shell geyser]

__u__nicode

[rancid hazel]

without multiline, ^ and $ match the start and end of the string

with multiline, they match the start and end of lines

\A and \Z match the start and end of the string regardless of the flag

[sharp tinsel]

Oh awesome

Wow

Damn

[rancid hazel]

here are all the flags in js

[sharp tinsel]

Friends of mine always joked about how powerful regex's are but how much of a pain they are as well

But this is sick lmao

[rancid hazel]

correction: they would if they were available in js

[sharp tinsel]

Oh...

[rancid hazel]

😔

[sharp tinsel]

rip js lmao

[rancid hazel]

the real pain in regex is when you're using multiple flavors of them because they each have subtle (and major) differences

the pain of not having variable-length lookbehinds 😔