Match All Letters and Numbers-- what exactly the function of "gi" in this question

JavaScript
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I search on the stackoverflow but still didnt’t understand the message https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27916055/whats-the-meaning-of-gi-in-a-regex?noredirect=1&lq=1
Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far


let quoteSample = "The five boxing wizards jump quickly.";
let alphabetRegexV2 = /\w/gi; // Change this line
let result = quoteSample.match(alphabetRegexV2).length;

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/regular-expressions/match-all-letters-and-numbers

2

What message do you not understand?

3

the “gi” part…I created this post just for this “gi” part. I’ve read other answer but couldn’t understand much.

4

g stands for global. It means it will search everything. The i stands for case insenstitive. meaning it will ignore the case in the search and find both capital and non capital letters.

5

It’s @Tirjasdyn said, but note that the i is unnecessary here: \w finds and word character, upper or lower case.