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Old 01-21-2013, 02:48 PM   PM User | #1
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Question Regular Expressions
Can anyone explain what is meant by the "anchor" \b.
The book says it matches between boundaries. Explain with an Example.
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Old 01-21-2013, 05:57 PM   PM User | #2
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here is a good article on it. Using their example
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\bis\b

This island is beautiful.
would yeild one match on the word 'is', ignoreing the 'is' in both 'this' and 'island'
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