It’s a bug in the RegEx engine, a similar question with the same issue came up here.
From my answer to that question: It’s a bug with the way regexes are implemented in ECMAScript 3, there’s a great post on the details here.
The basics are a /regex/
with the g
modifier doesn’t reset correctly, so multiple .test()
calls alternate between true
and false
if everyone should be true
, every other calls successfully resets it.