How to not separate on dash/hyphen when using lodash _.words?

Question

I am using lodash to split up usernames that are fed to me in a string with some sort of arbitrary separator. I would like to use _.words() to split strings up into words, except for hyphens, as some of the user names contain hyphens.

Example:

_.words(['user1,user2,user3-adm'], RegExp)

I want it to yield:

['user1', 'user2', 'user3-adm']

not this (_.words(array) without any pattern):

['user1', 'user2', 'user3', 'adm']

What is the right String/RegExp to use to make this happen?

Answer 1

The initial case can be solved by this:

_.words(['user1,user2,user3-adm'], /[^,]+/g);

Result:

["user1", "user2", "user3-adm"]

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[EDITED]

If you want to add more separators, add like this:

_.words(['user1,user2,user3-adm.user4;user5 user7'], /[^,.\s;]+/g);

Result:

["user1", "user2", "user3-adm", "user4", "user5", "user7"]

Last snippet will separate by:

commas (,), dots (.), spaces (\s), semicolons (;)

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Alternatively you can use:

 _.words(['user1,user2,user3-adm.user4;user5 user7*user8'], /[-\w]+/g)

Result:

 ["user1", "user2", "user3-adm", "user4", "user5", "user7", "user8"]

In this case you can add what you don't want as delimiter. Here it will will be separated by every character which is not \w (same as [_a-zA-Z0-9]) or -(dash)

Answer 2

words accept a regex expression to match the words and not to split them, being so, just use a regex that matches everything besides a comma, i.e.:

_.words(['user1,user2,user3-adm'], /[^,]+/g);

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Alternatively, you can use split.

result = wordlist.split(/,/);

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https://lodash.com/docs#words