Text Processing with JavaScript

Recipe 52

Matching Non-ASCII Words with the Unicode Property Escape

Task

Let’s assume you want to search for a file with a specific extension and extract the filename. This task is similar to Recipe 31, ​Extracting a Matched Value with the Capturing Group​, where you matched a file with a .pdf extension.

Now you want to match a filename that has non-ASCII characters. It’s not uncommon for people to save files in their own language, but your current script is unable to match non-ASCII letters:

part_2/unicode_property_escapes_p2/upe_p2_ex1.js

const re = /\b(\w+)\.pdf\b/;

You need a solution that allows you to match non-ASCII words. ...