Are there JavaScript equivalents of the Vim regular expression start and end of word atoms "\<" and "\>"?
javascript, regex, vim, word-boundaries, word-boundary
Solution
As far as I know there is nothing predefined. But what you can do is, to add a lookahead to the word boundary, to check if it is the start or the end of the word.
`\<` would be then `\b(?=\w)`. This checks if after the word boundary a word character is following ==> start of the word. See this as example on regexr
`\>` would be then `\b(?!\w)`. This checks if after the word boundary not a word character is following ==> end of the word
Problem
I know most regular expression engines, including the one in JavaScript have `\b` to match a word boundary, be it at either the start or end of a word. But Vim also has two more specific regular expression atoms: - `\<` matches only the word boundary at the start of a word - `\>` matches only the word boundary at the end of a word Does JavaScript have an equivalent to these atoms, and if not is there a way to express their more precise semantics some other way?