Considering the specific requirements mentioned in the feedback, a tailored regular expression pattern has been crafted:
/(?:[a-zA-Z_$]+[\w$]*)(?:\.[a-zA-Z_$]+[\w$]*)+/g
For a more detailed version with additional insights, you can explore this interactive demo (Make sure to include the g
flag for repeated occurrences).
This regex pattern aims to:
- Identify words starting with characters like
a-z
, A-Z
, _
, or $
(please note this is not an exhaustive list)
- Match a mix of those characters and digits
- Recognize one or more non-capturing groups with the same structure, starting with a
.
To avoid matches like one.that
and should.not
within a given text snippet:
/(?:\s|^)((?:[a-zA-Z_$]+[\w$]*)(?:\.[a-zA-Z_$]+[\w$]*)+)(?:\s|$)/g
Check out the live demo here
This refined pattern maintains the previous functionality and introduces:
- A requirement for whitespace or start-of-string at the beginning (
(?:\s|^)
) and whitespace or end-of-string at the end ((?:\s|$)
)
- A capture group to extract the property path without any surrounding whitespace
JavaScript identifiers support a wide range of characters beyond the standard \w
(e.g. [a-zA-Z0-9_]
), refer to the ECMA-262 documentation for more information.