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Regular expression to match whole words.

Simon Brunning SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk
Wed Sep 27 10:45:55 EDT 2000 
> From:	Tim Peters [SMTP:tim_one at email.msn.com]
> This is what "word-boundary assertions" are for, spelled \b.  Add this
> line:
> 
>     rePattern = r"\b(" + rePattern + r")\b"
> 
> Don't leave out rhe "r"s!  A \b is 0-width match that succeeds at the
> start
> or end of a buffer, or between a word (\w) and non-word (\W) character.
> If
> you leave out the "r"s, each \b will get treated like a backspace control
> character instead, and the result probably won't match anything!
> 
Thanks. Just the ticket.

Just as a matter if interest, what to the parentheses do, since it seems to
work fine without?

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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