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Reputation: 23

Regexp to find words with apostrophe

I have string, something like that:

You're so beaulifull! Don't say me no!

if i try to match all words by regexp, using \w+ i'll get output like that:

    You
    re
    so
    beaulifull
    Don
    t
    say
    me
    no

but what regex should i use to match words with apostrophe, so output will be correct?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3847

Answers (4)

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 627087

You can use

\w+(?:'\w+)*
\b\p{L}+(?:'\p{L}+)*\b

See regex #1 and regex #2 demo.

Details:

  • \b - a word boundary
  • \p{L}+ - one or more letters
  • (?:'\p{L}+)* - zero or more sequences of a ' char followed with one or more letters
  • \b - a word boundary

Upvotes: 0

Manoj Shrestha
Manoj Shrestha

Reputation: 4694

Regex: /\w+\'\w+/g

To verify this quick, we can go to the browser console and check the following:

var str = "You're so beaulifull! Don't say me no!";
str.match(/\w+\'\w+/g);

gives us: ["You're", "Don't"]

Upvotes: 1

Rodolfo
Rodolfo

Reputation: 593

If you don't mind a word starting or ending with an apostrophe [\w']+ will suffice.

However; if you don't want neither of those you could try something like this: \w+('\w+)?

Upvotes: 0

John
John

Reputation: 2425

Try creating a character class including both \w and an apostrophe literal, so something like this: [\w']+

Upvotes: 2

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