jq json parser notes

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Regular expressions

test(val), test(regex; flags)

Like match, but does not return match objects, only true or false for whether or not the regex matches the input

example:

$cat .tmp.json | jq '"HAHAHA 123" | test("hahaha.*[0-9]{3}"; "i")'
true