Regex: I Want To Match Only Words Without A Dot At The End

For example: George R.R. Martin I want to match only George and Martin. I have tried: \w+\b. But doesn't work!

Solution 1:

The \w+\b. matches 1+ word chars that are followed with a word boundary, and then any char that is a non-word char (as \b restricts the following . subpattern). Note that this way is not negating anything and you miss an important thing: a literal dot in the regex pattern must be escaped.

You may use a negative lookahead (?!\.):

var s = "George R.R. Martin";
console.log(s.match(/\b\w+\b(?!\.)/g));

See the regex demo

Details:

• \b - leading word boundary
• \w+ - 1+ word chars
• \b - trailing word boundary
• (?!\.) - there must be no . after the last word char matched.

See more about how negative lookahead works here.