How to get the current word starting from the cursor?

Question

In vimscript expand('<cword>') gives me the word under the cursor.

How can I get the word under the cursor starting at he current cursor location (skipping the word start).

Answer 1

Using vimscript: matchstr(getline('.'), '\k*', getpos('.')[2]-1).

getline('.') gets the current line, matchstrpos searches for the current keyword pattern \k* starting from the current cursor position from getpos('.'), where current cursor position is at the second index and we need to subtract 1 to index the search correctly.