[Tutor] search and replace
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Wed Mar 8 00:15:29 CET 2006
>> Specifically \W signifies a word boundary so
>>
> Using the non-word pattern '\W' will work except in cases where we're
> right at the edge:
Sneaky! I didn't know that...
> Slightly more robust is the '\b' boundary assertion pattern:
And I never understood why there were two...
Which begs the question: under what circumstance would we prefer
to use \W instead of \b?
I need to dig out my regex book...
Alan G.
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