Regular Expressions 101

Group 1((?!\.) )

Negative Lookahead(?!\.)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

\ban ASCII word boundary

Character Class[a-z]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case insensitive)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

Search reference

Regular Expression

((?!\.) )\b[a-z]\w+

New

var touchHandler = function(e)...
var touch = event.hasOwnProperty...
 event.changedTouches...
 event.originalEvent.changedTouches...

 var simulatedEvent = document.createEvent(...
 simulatedEvent.initMouseEvent({ touchend: "mouseup"})

 touch.target.dispatchEvent(simulatedEvent);
 event.preventDefault();

Regular Expression

Extraction