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
>
>
> 

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