Anchors
Function
RegExp equivalent
Explanation
lineStart
^
Assert position at the start of string, or start of line if multiline flag is set
not.lineStart
not(lineStart)
(?!^)
Assert position not at the start of string/line
lineEnd
$
Assert position at the end of string, or end of line if multiline flag is set
not.lineEnd
not(lineEnd)
(?!$)
Assert position not at the end of string/line
wordBoundary
\b
Assert position at a word boundary, between word
and non-word
characters
not.wordBoundary
not(wordBoundary)
\B
Assert position not at a word boundary
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