Thanks Yakov,
that was the explanation I wanted.
Rob.
Yakov Lerner wrote:
On 7/12/06, Robert Cussons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Max and Chip, I didn't realis that \< and \> were used to denote
the beginning and end of the word and therefore they could be used
separately, I always just thought of them as a way of getting an exact
match, which I suppose is almost the same thing, however, I still don't
understand why you can't exclusively mark the start of this string
with \<
Try /\*\<word\>
, it will work.
But /\<\*
will never match, becuse \< requires alphabetic character after it.
When you put non-alphabetic char [*] to the right of \<, \<
will *NEVER* match. I know this is non-intuituve, but
this is how it works. \< requires alphabetic char to the right of it.
This is why \<[*] never matches.
\< requires alphabetic char to the right of it. This is why
\<\* never matches.
\< requires alphabetic char right after it. Thisis the reason
\<\* never matches.
Yakov
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