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JavaScript RegExp W Metacharacter
The \W metacharacter is used to find a non-word character.
A word character is a character from a-z, A-Z, 0-9, including the _ (underscore) character.
Example
// Containing any non word character: console.log(/\W/.test(" ")) console.log(/\W/.test(".!@#")) // Not containing non word characters: console.log(/\W/.test("a")) console.log(/\W/.test("B")) console.log(/\W/.test("9")) console.log(/\W/.test("_"))
Output
true true false false false false
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