NER based on regular expressions

NER_RegExp.js

var regExs = {"e-mail": /(\w[-._\w]*\w@\w[-._\w]*\w\.\w{2,3})/ig,
              // Matches time of the form 19:20
              "time": /[0-9]{1,2}:[0-9][0-9]/g,
              // This regular expressions matches dates of the form XX/XX/YYYY 
              // where XX can be 1 or 2 digits long and YYYY is always 4 digits long.
              "date": /\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}\/\d{4}/g,
              "zipcode": /[0-9]{1,4}[A-Z]{2}/g,
              // Matches http://210.50.2.215/sd_new/WebBuilder.cgi?RegID=7449046&First=Ok&Upt=Ok&EditPage=3&S
              "uri": /\b([\d\w\.\/\+\-\?\:]*)((ht|f)tp(s|)\:\/\/|[\d\d\d|\d\d]\.[\d\d\d|\d\d]\.|www\.|\.tv|\.ac|\.com|\.edu|\.gov|\.int|\.mil|\.net|\.org|\.biz|\.info|\.name|\.pro|\.museum|\.co)([\d\w\.\/\%\+\-\=\&\?\:\\\"\'\,\|\~\;]*)\b/g
             };

var str = "this is a hz@hotmai.com string as you hwl@terdoest.info can read 19:20 9:10 31/2/2018 7559AH https://kennisbank.dimpact.nl/jira";

var edges = [];

function matchRegEx(cat, regex, matches) {
  while (match = regex.exec(str)) {
    console.log(match);
    console.log(match.index + ' ' + regex.lastIndex);
    edges.push({"matchedString": match[0],
                "category": cat,
                "start": match.index,
                "end": regex.lastIndex
    });
  }
}

Object.keys(regExs).forEach(function(cat) {
  matchRegEx(cat, regExs[cat], edges)
});

console.log(edges);