how select in text only space have after word

Question

I try to parse text in an array to use it in constructor functions or in variables

make it regular exprecions [A-Za-z0-9-_+,]+\s? but does the opposite select words that have space after

let txt = "cart  monkey thing";
txt.replace(A-Za-z0-9-_+,]+\s?, "-");

console.log(txt);
//return "- --"

I thought you invest that expression but I do not know how to do it

Answer 1

You can use regex to select space which comes after word as:

/(?<=\w+)\s+/g

const regex = /(?<=\w+)\s+/g;
let txt = "cart  monkey thing";
txt = txt.replace(regex, "-");

console.log(txt);