Regex for not containing consecutive characters

Question

I can\'t figure out javascript regex that would satisfy all those requirements:

The string can only contain underscores and alphanumeric characters. It must

Answer 1

You can also use

^[a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z0-9]|(_(?!_)))+[a-zA-Z0-9]$

Demo

The only change comparing to your regex is changing [a-zA-Z0-9_] to [a-zA-Z0-9]|(_(?!_)). I removed underscore from the character set and allow it in the second part of the alternative if it's not followed by another one.

(?!_) is negative lookahead meaning that _ cannot be next character