Hi Stack Overflow,
I have this three regexp:
var regex = new RegExp(/[A-Z]+/g); // This is to select only word with CAPS
var regexOk = new RegExp(/[^OK]+/g); // This is to select anything beside OK
var regexDmv = new RegExp(/[^DMV]+/g); // This is to select anything beside DMV
// And a variable:
var string = "Let's go to the DMV tomorrow, is that OK? ANSWER ME!";
Basically what I want to do is to search this string, so that it returns ['ANSWER', 'ME']
Can anyone give me suggestion?
A. To Match ANSWER and ME separately (see demo)
\b(?!DMV|OK)[A-Z]+\b
This is the same as (?!DMV|OK)\b[A-Z]+\b (you can place the opening boundary \b before or after the negative lookahead).
Using Javascript:
var regex = /\b(?!DMV|OK)[A-Z]+\b/;
var match = regex.exec(string);
if (match != null) {
result = match[0];
}
How it works
[A-Z]+ matches an upper-case word \b on each side of the uppercase letters ensure we have a whole word, not some letters embedded in another word(?!DMV|OK) before the word ensures that the word we match is neither OK nor DMVB. To Match ANSWER ME together (see demo)
(?:\b(?!DMV|OK)[A-Z]+\b\s*)+
Again, you can move the opening \b if you prefer it before the [A-Z]+
In JavaScript:
var regex = /(?:\b(?!DMV|OK)[A-Z]+\b\s*)+/;
var match = regex.exec(string);
if (match != null) {
result = match[0];
}
How it works
(?:...)+ non-capturing group matches one or more upper-case words [A-Z]+ followed by optional whitespace characters \s*\b on each side of the uppercase letters ensure we have a whole word, not some letters embedded in another word(?!DMV|OK) before each word ensures that the word we match is neither OK nor DMV
There is no NOT string operator in regex. [^OK] means any character besides O and K. You can just do
/ANSWER|ME/
[^OK]matches anything that's not anOor aK. The same thing with the DMV one. Do you just want what's after the?? If so, that's much easier and you should ask that.