Re: trying to match a "word", having difficulty with a "Lookbehind assertion"

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JJ <jj4public@gmx.com> writes:
>For matching just

  Probably the OP needs some generalization, but only he knows
  which generalization exactly. For one example, on the console,

|>|"alpha beta g****d*** eps".replace( /.*?\b([\w*]*\*[\w*]).*/, '$1' )
| |
|<|"g****d***"

  .

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