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Regex match words

This regular expression can be used to validate that a given string contains only characters in it or extract two words from a given string.

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Simple word match

The regular expression to match only words looks like this (including compound words):

/^\b(?:\w|-)+\b$/
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Example code in Javascript:

var wordsRegex = /^\b(?:\w|-)+\b$/;
// Validate words
wordsRegex.test('word'); // Returns true
wordsRegex.test('pet-friendly'); // Returns true
wordsRegex.test('not a word'); // Returns false

// Extract words from a string
var wordsRegexG = /\b(?:\w|-)+\b/g;
'Hello, world!'.match(wordsRegexG); // returns ['Hello', 'world']

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