Regexp Resulting Different Matches When Run From Js File And Chrome Console

This is weird, I have this statement in js code: alert ( 'Hello @name , your account will be activated at @date'.match(/@{1}[\w_]+/g) ); When I run the code from the file (openin

Solution 1:

As I tried to mention on the updatethe problem was the @ character was missing when inspecting it using chrome developer tool ( Thanks @Lee Kowalkowski for the insight).

I tried escaping it but still did not work.

Here is the solution I came up with:

var pattern = newRegExp(String.fromCharCode(64)+"{1}[\\w_]+","g"); //64 is ascii value of @

Still eager to know why @ character was missing