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words ending with an accentuated char JS

To find the words ending with an accentuated char and log them.

I thought this could do it.

const text = 'aztec, résumé, façade, and azure';
const words = text.match(/\b\w*[éèêëáàâäíìîïóòôöúùûüç]\b/g);
console.log(words);

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But all I get is > ré,faç

Solution

  • \b will not work since it will also treat accented characters as a \b.
    Instead you could use the u (unicode) flag, and before your list of accented characters use \p{L} and in the end check if followed by a non word character or end of line: Regex.101 example

    const text = 'aztec, résumé, façade, and azure, mardí';
const words = text.match(/\p{L}*[éèêëáàâäíìîïóòôöúùûüç](?=\W|$)/ug);
console.log(words);