Regex - Match All Until First Space

[SmileyBot 13]

I want to be able to grab only the first word (any characters)
not sure whats going on, but No matter what I try i keep getting the second words after the space, but when i try the code in a regex builders says it works---- please help

set(#business_name,"J1ck$ Bean Stalk","Global")
set(#business_name_trimmed,$replace regular expression(#business_name,"^\\s*([a-zA-Z0-9]+)",""),"Global")

Result = Bean Stalk
Result I want = J1ck$

Thanks

[pash 504]

try

set(#business_name,"J1ck$ Bean Stalk","Global")
set(#business_name_trimmed,$replace regular expression(#business_name,"\\s.*",""),"Global")
alert(#business_name_trimmed)

[SmileyBot 13]

thanks mate, it worked.....

 

Do you know why other builders show that it will work... like ( helloinsomnia )

[HelloInsomnia 1103]

That works as intended, the reason you are having issues is because you used $replace regular expression and so it replaced the text you told it to. If you wanted to find that text then you would use $find regular expression (which is what the Regex Builder is using that is why you saw that)

 

Hope this clears it up and gets you the intended result.