Javascript – regex – word boundary (\b) issue

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Since Javascript doesn’t have the lookbehind feature and since word boundaries work only with members of the \w character class, the only way is to use groups (and capturing groups if you want to make a replacement):

(?m)(^|[^a-zA-ZΆΈ-ώἀ-ῼ\n])([a-zA-ZΆΈ-ώἀ-ῼ]{2})(?![a-zA-ZΆΈ-ώἀ-ῼ])

example to remove 2 letters words:

txt = txt.replace(/(^|[^a-zA-ZΆΈ-ώἀ-ῼ\n])([a-zA-ZΆΈ-ώἀ-ῼ]{2})(?![a-zA-ZΆΈ-ώἀ-ῼ])/gm, '\1');

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