Split Method Delimiters

Hello!

I’m confused on a couple of solutions for both the split method and combing that with the join method. In both examples, the answer includes (/\W/) and I can’t seem to find what that does exactly via Google. Here’s the original problem with the solution in it. What does the W mean?

In the description of the challenge it shows: otherString.split(/\d/), which appears to remove digits from a string. But I can’t seem to come up with what “W” might stand for.

function splitify(str) {
  // Only change code below this line

return str.split(/\W/);

  // Only change code above this line
}

splitify("Hello World,I-am code");

It’s a Regex
/\W/ or /[^A-Za-z0-9_]/ matches “%” in "50%

/\W/ is a regular expression for non latin word characters means it represent any characters other than A-Z,a-z,0-9 and underscore(_)

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Thank you! I just couldn’t seem to find that in MDN myself, thank you for linking it!

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