I have a regex expression that I'm using to find all the words in a given block of content, case insensitive, that are contained in a glossary stored in a database. Here's my pattern:
/($word)/i
The problem is, if I use /(Foo)/i then words like Food get matched. There needs to be whitespace or a word boundary on both sides of the word.
How can I modify my expression to match only the word Foo when it is a word at the beginning, middle, or end of a sentence?
For Those who want to validate an Enum in their code you can following the guide
In Regex World you can use ^ for starting a string and $ to end it. Using them in combination with | could be what you want :
^(Male)$|^(Female)$
It will return true only for Male or Female case.
If you are doing it in Notepad++
[\w]+
Would give you the entire word, and you can add parenthesis to get it as a group. Example: conv1 = Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation=LeakyReLU(alpha=a), padding='valid', kernel_initializer='he_normal')(inputs). I would like to move LeakyReLU into its own line as a comment, and replace the current activation. In notepad++ this can be done using the follow find command:
([\w]+)( = .+)(LeakyReLU.alpha=a.)(.+)
and the replace command becomes:
\1\2'relu'\4 \n # \1 = LeakyReLU\(alpha=a\)\(\1\)
The spaces is to keep the right formatting in my code. :)
use word boundaries \b,
The following (using four escapes) works in my environment: Mac, safari Version 10.0.3 (12602.4.8)
var myReg = new RegExp(‘\\\\b’+ variable + ‘\\\\b’, ‘g’)
Get all "words" in a string
/([^\s]+)/g
Basically
^/smeans break on spaces (or match groups of non-spaces)
Don't forget thegfor Greedy
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