Get current word on caret position

Question

How can I get a word in textarrea by its current caret position? I tried something like this, however this returns just the words first letter upto the character at caret position. For example: if the cursor is between fo and o it returns `fo` and not `foo` as excpected. Fo`|`o bar is not equal to bar foo. => `Fo` expects `Foo` Foo bar is not equ`|`al to bar foo. => `equ` expects `equal`. Here's what I've done so far: ``` function getCaretPosition(ctrl) { var start, end; if (ctrl.setSelectionRange) { start = ctrl.selectionStart; end = ctrl.selectionEnd; } else if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) { var range = document.selection.createRange(); start = 0 - range.duplicate().moveStart('character', -100000); end = start + range.text.length; } return { start: start, end: end } } $("textarea").keyup(function () { var caret = getCaretPosition(this); var result = /\S+$/.exec(this.value.slice(0, caret.end)); var lastWord = result ? result[0] : null; alert(lastWord); }); `…

Accepted Answer

Try change this line in your code to this:

```
 var result = /\S+$/.exec(this.value.slice(0, this.value.indexOf(' ',caret.end)));
```

Get current word on caret position

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