re.exec is not a function on .match

[preflight]

I'm getting TypeError: re.exec is not a function when trying to use chai-jquery's match assertion:

it('caches element', function() {
  expect(this.$el).to.match('#el');
});

All other assertions are working fine (to.have.class, to.exist, etc.). It looks like some updates were made for chai-jquery 2.0. Could this be a compatibility issue? Thanks

[jgerigmeyer]

I ran into this same issue, but caused by the way chai-jquery checks whether the argument being matched is a jQuery object. I don't think it's related to this plugin. See chaijs/chai-jquery#36 and https://github.com/chaijs/chai-jquery/blob/master/chai-jquery.js#L197.

[mhfrantz]

What works for me is to turn the regex from a string to a regex, e.g.:

expect(this.$el).to.match(/#el/);

Credit: @damonomad

[jmendiara]

This issue is not related with karma-jquery-chai but chai-jquery as @jgerigmeyer says. Please, update your own chai-jquery dependency.