Unfortunately the .match follows the standard Javascript Regex engine behavior of string.test returning true if there is a partial match. This behavior works great except for a few examples.

Example)

const freeRegex = /fr[e3]|[e3]|[e3] money/i; 

This regular expression will register as match for the phrase fr33 mon3y despite that logic tells us there shouldn't be. I want a method that runs String.match from the input ( fr33 mon3y) on freeRegex. From there I want to compare if the the first match (index 0 ) from the return value) is equal to original input.

It would be the equivalent of running something to the following as a one line assertion.

const freeRegex =  /fr[e3][e3] mon[e3]y/ig;
const matches = "fr33 mon3y".match(freeRegex); 
chai.assert.equal(matches[0],"fr33 mon3y") 
``

Thank you.