I want to find the word immediately after a particular word in a string using a regex. For example, if the word is ‘my’,
“This is my prayer”- prayer
“this is my book()”- book
Is it possible using regex?
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I want to find the word immediately after a particular word in a string using a regex. For example, if the word is ‘my’,
“This is my prayer”- prayer
“this is my book()”- book
Is it possible using regex?
The regex would be
\p{L}+is a sequence of letters. The\p{L}is a Unicode code point with the property “Letter”, so it matches a letter in any language.(?<=\bmy\s+)is a lookbehind assertion, that ensures thet word “my” is before