Regex match first letter of words, but not "and"

Question

How would I write a regex that matches the first letter of each word (going to be capitalising them via PHP), but not the word "and".

So far I have:

/\b([a-z])/ig

This works for matching the first letter of words, but obviously not including anything yet for not matching where the word is "and".

In PHP PCRE, you can use [`'~\band\b(*SKIP)(*F)|\b\p{Ll}~u'`](https://regex101.com/r/zO6xN6/1), too (added `/u` just in case Unicode letters are to be handled, too). — Wiktor Stribiżew, Apr 22 '16 at 08:05

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-22T07:57:10.160

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You can use a negative lookahead for this:

/\b(?!and\b)[a-z]/

Negative lookahead (?!and\b) before \b[a-z] will allow matching all words starting with lowercase English alphabet except and.

edited Apr 22 '16 at 07:57

answered Apr 22 '16 at 07:54

anubhava

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