title: Regex to return the word before the match
body: <p>I've been trying to extract the word before the match. For example, I have the following sentence:</p>
  
  <p>"<strong>Allatoona was a town located in extreme southeastern Bartow County, Georgia.</strong>"</p>
  
  <p>I want to extract the word before "Bartow". </p>
  
  <p>I've tried the following regex to extract that word:</p>
  
  <pre><code>\w\sCounty,
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What I get returned is "w County" when what I wanted is just the word Bartow.</p>
  
  <p>Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!</p>