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How to not separate on dash/hyphen when using lodash _.words?

I am using lodash to split up usernames that are fed to me in a string with some sort of arbitrary separator. I would like to use _.words() to split strings up into words, except for hyphens, as some of the user names contain hyphens.

Example:

_.words(['user1,user2,user3-adm'], RegExp)

I want it to yield:

['user1', 'user2', 'user3-adm']

not this (_.words(array) without any pattern):

['user1', 'user2', 'user3', 'adm']

What is the right String/RegExp to use to make this happen?

Solution

  • The initial case can be solved by this:

    _.words(['user1,user2,user3-adm'], /[^,]+/g);

    Result:

    ["user1", "user2", "user3-adm"]

    [EDITED]

    If you want to add more separators, add like this:

    _.words(['user1,user2,user3-adm.user4;user5 user7'], /[^,.\s;]+/g);

    Result:

    ["user1", "user2", "user3-adm", "user4", "user5", "user7"]

    Last snippet will separate by:

    commas (,), dots (.), spaces (\s), semicolons (;)

    Alternatively you can use:

     _.words(['user1,user2,user3-adm.user4;user5 user7*user8'], /[-\w]+/g)

    Result:

     ["user1", "user2", "user3-adm", "user4", "user5", "user7", "user8"]

    In this case you can add what you don't want as delimiter. Here it will will be separated by every character which is not \w (same as [_a-zA-Z0-9]) or -(dash)