What will be the regex to include all words concatenated with special characters but exclude whitespaces

This should be in the category "question" :)

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Go have fun

I know that I said it's the wrong category but my mind wasn't able to stop thinking about this regex. So I tried something. However, you still need to define the special characters yourself.

https://regex101.com/r/BWM3ij/2

@irene exactly

@irene I tried a lot of stuffs like for excluding space
^/s this is what I tried... But unfortunately did not get what I wanted

Forget my answer, I totally misunderstood the question.

How about https://regex101.com/r/BWM3ij/3?

Why a regex tho?

@nitwhiz maybe the space needs to be replaced with \s in some cases.

Updated with v5
https://regex101.com/r/BWM3ij/5

I did it using split function then I used a for loop to remove the empty elements

@NitinSahu that's probably better. I love regex but this is done way more performant by split & filter (i guess, would like to see a jsperf over 10000 space seperated words here).^^

Regex does it token by token in x iterations (x being whatthefuckdoiknow) while split & filter does it token by token once and then just checks equality n times (n being the count of words), i think a comparsion could get intersting. Don't forget that filter involves a function being called for every element, that being at least 2 jmp and a closure every time.

Well then https://jsperf.com/regex-vs-split-f...