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suricactus
suricactus

Reputation: 1238

Get everything but dashes at the beginning - regEx in javascript

I'm trying to build my regular expression, but I've failed. I'm trying to get everything after single or double dash (you can try it here):

var regEx = /(?<=[-{1,2}])[^-]\S*/g;

It works just fine, but it selects even if we have 3+ dashes too. I've tried something like /(?<=^[-{1,2}])[^-]\S*/g and /(?<=\b[-{1,2}])[^-]\S*/g, but then it crashes at all.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 72

Answers (1)

Anirudha
Anirudha

Reputation: 32787

Unfortunately javascript doesn't support lookbehind

You can use this regex with multiline option

^-{1,2}(?!-)(\S*)

After this you can use group 1 to access the required match..

Upvotes: 1

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