get a function name from the function in Javascript

One day I needed to get the function name from the function itself. Here is what I found.

function functionName(fn)
{
var name=/\W*function\s+([\w\$]+)\(/.exec(fn);
if(!name)return 'No name';
return name[1];
}

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