I’m working on certain data, and want to sort out them using regex. My requirement is that I want to match every line starting with a non numeric word. I’m tried using.
/^[^\d\s]+\b.*/gm
However the above regex doesn’t match lines like –
"12#22 why is it so"
Regex considers 12#22 as a numeric word but 12#22 is a non numeric word. Can anyone explain the proper solution for my case.
>Solution :
/^[^\d\s]+\b.*/gm matches any line that starts with one or more characters other than digits and whitespaces followed with a word boundary. 12#22 why is it so starts with a digit, so it is not a match.
You need
/^(?!\d+[^\S\n\r]).*/gm
Details:
^– start of a line(?!\d+[^\S\n\r])– immediately to the right of the current location, there should be no one or more digits and then a horizontal whitespace.*– rest of the line.
See the regex demo.