Chapter 8

Question 1

Text contained within double or single quotation marks

Answer 1

string

Question 2

Converts a JSON string value to an object

Answer 2

​parse()

Question 3

Separates alternate sets of substrings in a regular expression

Answer 3

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Question 4

A standardized set of characters from many of the world’s languages

Answer 4

Unicode

Question 5

Removes the last element from the end of an array

Answer 5

​pop()

Question 6

​Combines array elements into a string

Answer 6

​join()

Question 7

Compares strings according to the particular sort order of a language or country

Answer 7

localeCompare() method

Question 8

Special character that defines pattern matching rules in a regular expression

Answer 8

metacharacter

Question 9

Metacharacter that specifies the quantity of a match

Answer 9

quantifier

Question 10

​Adds one or more elements to the end of an array

Answer 10

​push()

Question 11

The ____ object contains methods and properties for working with regular expressions in JavaScript.

Answer 11

RegExp

Question 12

To sort elements of an array alphabetically, you use the ____ method.

Answer 12

sort()

Question 13

The fromCharCode() method is called a ____ method because it is not used as a method of any string objects (which can be literal strings or variables) in your scripts.

Answer 13

static

Question 14

To allow a string to contain an alternate set of substrings, you separate the strings in a regular expression pattern with the ____ metacharacter.

Answer 14

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Question 15

The ____ method converts a text string to lowercase.

Answer 15

toLowerCase()

Question 16

The String class ____ property returns the number of characters in a string.

Answer 16

length

Question 17

The ____ method adds one or more elements to the end of an array.

Answer 17

push()

Question 18

The ____ method constructs a text string from Unicode character codes that are passed as arguments.

Answer 18

fromCharCode()

Question 19

A pattern that matches the beginning or end of a line is called a(n) ____.

Answer 19

anchor

Question 20

The JavaScript String class includes the ____ method, which creates a new string by combining strings that are passed as arguments.

Answer 20

concat()

Question 21

The ____ method removes and returns the first element from the beginning of an array.

Answer 21

shift()

Question 22

You use ____ classes in regular expressions to treat multiple characters as a single item.

Answer 22

character

Question 23

Regular expression patterns consist of literal characters and ____.

Answer 23

metacharacters

Question 24

The ____ method of the String class returns the position number in a string of the first character in the argument.

Answer 24

indexOf()

Question 25

To manipulate arrays in your scripts, you use the methods and length property of the ____ class.

Answer 25

Array

Question 26

The ____ method converts a text string to uppercase.

Answer 26

toUpperCase()

Question 27

You use the ____ method of the String class to split a string into an indexed array.

Answer 27

split()

Question 28

The ____ method returns the position number in a string of the first instance of the first character in the pattern argument.

Answer 28

search(pattern)

Question 29

To convert a JavaScript object to a JSON string, you use the ____ method.​

Answer 29

​stringify()

Question 30

Characters contained in a set of parentheses within a regular expression are referred to as a subexpression or ____.

Answer 30

subpattern