REGEX a word in a paragraph, but not a word containing that word, unless its a plural
I am highlighting words in a bo开发者_如何转开发dy of text.
If I regex "Port" the word "Portuguese" is highlighted too, but I need "Ports" to be highlighted.
Any ideas? I hate regex.
Thanks
Try something like this:
\bports?\b
The ?
means that the s
character is optional. The \b
at either end matches word-boundaries.
More generally, you could do something like this to allow words ending in s
, es
or ies
:
\bwhatever(?:s|es|ies)?\b
This is very crude and you're likely to get false positives and negatives. If you want something more sophisticated then I suppose you'd need to look at a proper full-text search engine.
The most basic answer would be this:
\bPort(s?)\b
\b
marks beginning and ending of the word. This only matches 'Port' and 'Ports'. If you need case insensitive matching, then use something like /i
modifier in Perl:
m/\bport(s?)\b/i
Or, if you want to match only 'port', 'Port', 'ports' and 'Ports', try
\b(P|p)ort(s?)\b
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