Skip character in range

Question

I have a regex: /["-,]/

Which matches a character in the range from :

to ,

I want to skip the match for '

(apostrophe). Any help!

regex.test(strInput);

returns true for a string with an apostrophe. I need to reverse this line that has an apostrophe

+3

Chittprakash 09 oct. 14 at 7:55

1 answer

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-09T07:59:01+0000

You can use negative lookahead:

/(?!')["-,]/

Here (?!')

is a negative lookahead, which means that the next character must not be a single quote.