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What's the best practice for determining if a browser supports the new regular expression features specified in the ECMAScript 2018 Language Specification?



I suspect you just have to write try catch statements or do it by detecting browser versions, but thought I check here first.










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  • There are a couple of good answers here.

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  • I thought I might find an example test on caniuse, but it doesn't seem like they're testing for named capture groups yet.

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What's the best practice for determining if a browser supports the new regular expression features specified in the ECMAScript 2018 Language Specification?



I suspect you just have to write try catch statements or do it by detecting browser versions, but thought I check here first.










share|improve this question

























  • There are a couple of good answers here.

    – Wiktor Stribiżew
    Jan 2 at 13:55











  • I thought I might find an example test on caniuse, but it doesn't seem like they're testing for named capture groups yet.

    – Lonnie Best
    Jan 4 at 6:39














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What's the best practice for determining if a browser supports the new regular expression features specified in the ECMAScript 2018 Language Specification?



I suspect you just have to write try catch statements or do it by detecting browser versions, but thought I check here first.










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What's the best practice for determining if a browser supports the new regular expression features specified in the ECMAScript 2018 Language Specification?



I suspect you just have to write try catch statements or do it by detecting browser versions, but thought I check here first.







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  • There are a couple of good answers here.

    – Wiktor Stribiżew
    Jan 2 at 13:55











  • I thought I might find an example test on caniuse, but it doesn't seem like they're testing for named capture groups yet.

    – Lonnie Best
    Jan 4 at 6:39



















  • There are a couple of good answers here.

    – Wiktor Stribiżew
    Jan 2 at 13:55











  • I thought I might find an example test on caniuse, but it doesn't seem like they're testing for named capture groups yet.

    – Lonnie Best
    Jan 4 at 6:39

















There are a couple of good answers here.

– Wiktor Stribiżew
Jan 2 at 13:55





There are a couple of good answers here.

– Wiktor Stribiżew
Jan 2 at 13:55













I thought I might find an example test on caniuse, but it doesn't seem like they're testing for named capture groups yet.

– Lonnie Best
Jan 4 at 6:39





I thought I might find an example test on caniuse, but it doesn't seem like they're testing for named capture groups yet.

– Lonnie Best
Jan 4 at 6:39












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