JavaScript leftContext Property
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The leftContext property is the substring in front of the characters most recently matched.
This property contains everything from the string from before the match.
Syntax
RegExp.leftContext
Example
In the following example we will see the text from the string in front of the last match:
<script>
var str = "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain";
var patt1 = new RegExp("ain");
patt1.test(str);
document.write("Text before match: " + RegExp.leftContext);
</script>
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