Try "\barchitect\b". Of course, replace "architect" with the keyword that was entered. the "\b" marks word boundaries.
Rob Wilkerson On Oct 23, 2006, at 6:44 PM, Jake Churchill wrote: > I'm not really good with regexes so I need some help here. I have a > simple search page which searches a table containing a keyword and > description. I want to implement highlighting which was simple. > However, I need to enhance it slightly. > > For example, if the user searches for "architect" results are also > returned for "architectural" and "architecture". This doesn't need to > change. However, I do a simple ReplaceNoCase() to highlight the > string. So, only "architect" is highlighted when the whole word is > actually "architectural" or "architecture." > > What I need is some kind of UDF or REGEX which will allow me to only > highlight "architect" if that is the entire word but if "architect" is > really part of a larger word it would not get highlighted. > > I found a highlight UDF on cflib.org but am not especially good with > regexes so I'm not sure what sequence to be looking for. Also, I > would > like to search for more than just a space before and after the > word. So > if the word is hyphenated (i.e. "architectural-style" it would still > highlight "architecture". > > Jake > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:257811 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4