JavaScript Don't match if character plus space is present before a specific word donald trump,donovan mitchell,donald trump twitter,don toliver,donuts,

This regex matches "so" when it's preceded by a comma and a space:

(,\s)(so)

I want to do the opposite now. I want to tell the regex: don't match "so" if it's preceded by a comma and a space. I tried this (after seeing this SO question):

^(,\s)(so)

But now the regex doesn't match anything: https://regexr.com/4kgq8.

Note: I'm not trying to match beginning of the line.

Answer:1

I want to tell the regex: don't match "so" if it's preceded by a comma and a space.

Best solution is to use a negative lookbehind as I mentioned in my comment below question:

/(?<!, )so/g

Here, (?<!, ) is a negative lookbehind expression that fails the match if a comma and space is present before so.

RegEx Demo 1

Caveat is that lookbehind support in Javascript is only available in modern browsers.

If you want to support legacy or older browsers also then approach will be to use a captured group and discard unwanted match in alternation:

/(?:, so|(\bso))\b/g

RegEx Demo 2

Here a match is defined by presence of capture group #1 in each match. We are matching and discarding unwanted match of ", so in left hand side of alternation. Our desired matches string is on right hand side of alternation which is captured in group #1.

Code:

var arr = ['So that', 
'so big that', 
', so so'];

const regex = /(?:, so|(\bso))\b/g;

arr.forEach((el) => {
  m = regex.exec(el);
  if (m && m.length > 1)
    console.log('Line; [', el, ' ] Start:', regex.lastIndex, m[1])
});

Answer:2

Or you can simply use alternation, if that'd be OK, with an expression without lookarounds such as:

, so|(\bso\b)

const regex = /, so|(\bso\b)/gmi;
const str = `So that 
so big that 
, so
and not , so
, so so`;
let m;

while ((m = regex.exec(str)) !== null) {
    // This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
    if (m.index === regex.lastIndex) {
        regex.lastIndex++;
    }
    
    // The result can be accessed through the `m`-variable.
    m.forEach((match, groupIndex) => {
        console.log(`Found match, group ${groupIndex}: ${match}`);
    });
}

Answer:3

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