# How to use Discourse regexes with watched words?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-discourse-regexes-with-watched-words/61522
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**Created:** [24 באפריל,‏ 2017,‏ 9:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-discourse-regexes-with-watched-words/61522 "2017-04-24T21:25:19Z")
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#### Post date: [24 באפריל,‏ 2017,‏ 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-discourse-regexes-with-watched-words/61522/3 "2017-04-24T22:38:06Z")

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Reading that, I don’t see much about them except to see that they are _Javascript_ regular expressions. (I would have assumed Ruby without that link.) So a Javascript reference would be in order.

> **[RegExp - JavaScript | MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp)**
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> The RegExp object is used for matching text with a pattern.

Which has internal links to specifications, if you want to go deeper.

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