Regex match words without alphabet

Question

I want to match all words that doesn't include alphabet [a-zA-Z] init.

Pass cases

• Some Name
• Another3 [VLT]
• Also! (This)

Fail cases

• Not 42 this
• This is wrong (!)
• Wrong #!

I tried this regex /\b[^a-zA-Z ]+\b/ but it fails for some cases

Answer 1

You can use

(?<!\S)[^A-Za-z\s]+(?!\S)

See the regex demo.

Details:

• (?<!\S) - left-hand whitespace boundary
• [^A-Za-z\s]+ - one or more chars other than whitespace and ASCII letters (use [^\p{L}\s]+ to support all Unicode letters if supported)
• (?!\S) - right-hand whitespace boundary.