Example taken from MDN webdocs
var paragraph = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. It barked.';
var regex = /[A-Z]/g;
var found = paragraph.match(regex);
console.log(found); // will return an array of matches and returns null when nothing matches.
Would like to know reasoning behind returning null instead of an Empty Array when nothing matches?
That's how String.prototype.match is defined in the EcmaScript standard
In short: if nothing matches - it returns null by the standard.
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