Regular Expression to MATCH ALL words in a query, in any order

Question

I\'m trying to build a search feature for a project which narrows down items based on a user search input and if it matches the keywords listed against items. For this, I\'m

Answer 1

your regex looks pretty good:

\b(meat|pasta|dinner)\b

Check that the length of matches equals the number of keywords (in this case, three):

string.match(re).length === numberOfKeywords

where re is the regex with a g flag, string is the data and numberOfKeywords is the number of keywords

This assumes that there are no repeated keywords.