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| author | Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de> | 2017-12-11 05:04:17 -0200 |
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| committer | Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de> | 2017-12-19 13:43:31 -0300 |
| commit | fe257ac2078676012ed6d188e63e50827fe69d27 (patch) | |
| tree | 213e8b19ef93524c97332afa418de58ac745a6ea /doc/api/assert.md | |
| parent | da5c7d68cdceaa70411ffab6bee16e200a703aa9 (diff) | |
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doc: improve .throws RegExp info
It was not clear why the error name is actually also tested for when
using a regular expression. This is now clarified.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17585
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/api/assert.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/api/assert.md | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/assert.md b/doc/api/assert.md index 7ad56accc2..43c7e8e2d4 100644 --- a/doc/api/assert.md +++ b/doc/api/assert.md @@ -740,12 +740,15 @@ assert.throws( Validate error message using [`RegExp`][]: +Using a regular expression runs `.toString` on the error object, and will +therefore also include the error name. + ```js assert.throws( () => { throw new Error('Wrong value'); }, - /value/ + /^Error: Wrong value$/ ); ``` |