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// International Chemical Identifier Regex, by lo sauer - lsauer.com
// Morphine InchI:
var x="InChI=1S/C17H19NO3/c1-18-7-6-17-10-3-5-13(20)16(17)21-15-12(19)4-2-9(14(15)17)8-11(10)18/h2-5,10-11,13,16,19-20H,6-8H2,1H3/t10-,11+,13-,16-,17-/m0/s1"
// applying an organic character-subset
// we could check for the length property, but in case of 0 matches 'null' is returned -> hence !!.. \ generally equal to Boolean(..)
!!x.trim().match(/^((InChI=)?[^J][0-9BCOHNSOPrIFla+\-\(\)\\\/,pqbtmsih]{6,})$/ig)
>true
//generic:
x.trim().match(/^((InChI=)?[^J][0-9a-z+\-\(\)\\\/,]+)$/ig)