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1. Regular Expression to find words (using word boundary) where words include a dash character    stackoverflow.com

Given the following Regular Expression: \b(MyString|MyString-Dash)\b And the text: AString MyString MyString-Dash Running a match against the text never finds a match for the second thing (MyString-Dash) because the '-' (dash) character isn't a word boundary character. ...

2. Alphanumeric, dash and underscore but no spaces regular expression check Javascript    stackoverflow.com

Trying to check input against a regular expression. The field should only allow alphanumeric characters, dashes and underscores and should NOT allow spaces. However, the code below allows spaces. What am I missing?

var regexp ...

3. Capitalizing the letter following a dash and removing the dash    stackoverflow.com

If you haven't guessed from the title, I'm trying to convert CSS property syntax to JS syntax using JS. That means I want to take the input 'margin-top' and convert it ...

4. Finding the xml escaped dash in Javascript    stackoverflow.com

I want to use regular expression to find dashes in an html in javascript. The dashes in html pages sometimes may be xml escaped with the string value of –. ...

5. Regex for dashed class names    stackoverflow.com

I have a strings that looks like this: "wes-1 className Another" "wes-2-bos className Another" "wes-3 className Another" "wes-5-bos className Another" I need to return the ones that are wes-* and delete everything else. Regex makes my head ...