I am trying to remove all the characters from the string after comma except the first letter. The string is basically the last name,first name.
For example:
Smith,John
I tried as below but it removes comma and everything after comma.
let str = "Smith,John";
str = str.replace(/\s/g, ""); // to remove all whitespace if there is any at the beginning, in the middle and at the end
str = str.split(',')[0];
Expected output: Smith,J
Thank you!
Or try (,\w).* with replace:
let str = "Smith,John";
str = str.replace(/(,\w).*/, '$1');
console.log(str);Try this regex out:
\w+,\w
This matches one or more characters before the comma and then matches only 1 character.
Here is the demo: https://regex101.com/r/bKpWt7/1
Note: \w matches any character from [a-zA-Z0-9_].
Taking optional spaces around the comma in to account, and perhaps multiple "names" before the comma:
*([^\s,][^,\n]*?) *, *([^\s,]).*
* Match optional spaces( Capture group 1
*([^\s,] Match optional spaces and match at least a single char other than a whitespace char or a ,[^,\n]*? Match any char except a , or a newline non greedy) Close group 1 *, * Match a comma between optional spaces([^\s,]) Capture group 2, match a single char other than , or a whitespace char.* Match the rest of the lineIn the replacement using group 1 and group 2 with a comma in between $1,$2
const regex = / *([^\s,][^,\n]*?) *, *([^\s,]).*/;
[
"Smith,John Jack",
"Smith Lastname , Jack John",
"Smith , John",
" ,Jack"
].forEach(s => console.log(s.replace(regex, "$1,$2")));