Get \p{L}+ to match string

Question

I've been banging my head against the wall for an hour or so now trying everything I can think of to get \p{L}+ to match a string in javascript. The below returns false every time and I don't know why. It works in my local regex tester and works on regex101.com but fails in situ.

var reg = /\d\d\ \p{L}+\ \d\d\d\d/;
return (reg.test('30 october 2014'));

I've googled a ton of things about this but all to no avail.

Thanks in advance

EDIT

The reason I've gone down this route as opposed to [a-zA-Z] is because I will need to match accented latin as well.

In [regex101](http://regex101.com/r/bO9qF4/1), you didn't change the flavour — ʰᵈˑ, Oct 30 '14 at 17:13

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 30 '14 at 17:14

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JavaScript doesn't currently support Unicode regular expression categories. I suggest using XRegExp and its Unicode addon.

answered Oct 30 '14 at 17:14

Tim Down

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Ah, I had a feeling it would be something like this. I have tried XRegExp but it wouldn't play for me – Drew Oct 30 '14 at 17:15
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@Drew: I've used XRegExp quite a bit and it's always worked well for me. Perhaps you didn't use the correct syntax? – Tim Down Oct 30 '14 at 17:18
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Wouldn't surprise me! – Drew Oct 30 '14 at 20:17

Get \p{L}+ to match string

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