Match Everything But Letters and Numbers, please clarify the use of /W

JavaScript
#1

Can someone tell me what’s happening here, this code returns 6 in the console. I thought it should be returning 1 because ‘.’ is the only non-alphanumeric here. please clarify…

Your code so far


let quoteSample = "The five boxing wizards jump quickly.";
let nonAlphabetRegex = /\W/g; // Change this line
let result = quoteSample.match(nonAlphabetRegex).length;

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/regular-expressions/match-everything-but-letters-and-numbers

#2

space is :slight_smile:

Just to elaborate more, \W covers 1. non Latin letters(case insensitive), 2. non digits, 3. non underscore. That is it, it matches all the other characters, including space, dot etc.

#4

Oh yeah :grin: thank you brother

#5