No \p{L} for JavaScript Regex ? Use Unicode in JS regex

javascript regex regular-language
charles Lgn picture charles Lgn · May 4, 2018 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

I nedd to add a-zA-ZáàâäãåçéèêëíìîïñóòôöõúùûüýÿæœÁÀÂÄÃÅÇÉÈÊËÍÌÎÏÑÓÒÔÖÕÚÙÛÜÝŸÆŒ x time but I find this very ugly. So I try \p{L} but it does not working in JavaScript.

Any Idea ?

my actual regex : [a-zA-ZáàâäãåçéèêëíìîïñóòôöõúùûüýÿæœÁÀÂÄÃÅÇÉÈÊËÍÌÎÏÑÓÒÔÖÕÚÙÛÜÝŸÆŒ][a-zA-ZáàâäãåçéèêëíìîïñóòôöõúùûüýÿæœÁÀÂÄÃÅÇÉÈÊËÍÌÎÏÑÓÒÔÖÕÚÙÛÜÝŸÆŒ' ,"-]*[a-zA-ZáàâäãåçéèêëíìîïñóòôöõúùûüýÿæœÁÀÂÄÃÅÇÉÈÊËÍÌÎÏÑÓÒÔÖÕÚÙÛÜÝŸÆŒ'",]+

I want to have a thing like that : [\p{L}][\p{L}' ,"-]*[\p{L}'",]+ (or smaller than the actual expression)

Answer

Federico Piazza picture Federico Piazza · May 4, 2018

You have XRegExp addon to support unicode letter matcher:

var unicodeWord = XRegExp("^\\pL+$"); // L: Letter

Here you can see more example matching unicode in javascript

http://xregexp.com/plugins/

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