While trying to learn a little more about regular expressions, a tutorial suggested that you can use the \b to match a word boundary. However, the following snippet in the Python interpreter does n...

I'm having an issue with a menu un-ordered list. Whereby the list items are over running the <ul> and <div> boundaries and only starting the next line once it has reach the edge of the ...

What are non-word boundary in regex (\B), compared to word-boundary?

I'm trying to use a Regex pattern (in Java) to find a sequence of 3 digits and only 3 digits in a row. 4 digits doesn't match, 2 digits doesn't match. The obvious pattern to me was: "\b(\d{3})\b"...

Regular expression engines have a concept of "zero width" matches, some of which are useful for finding edges of words: \b - present in most engines to match any boundary between word and non-wor...

I know most regular expression engines, including the one in JavaScript have \b to match a word boundary, be it at either the start or end of a word. But Vim also has two more specific regular exp...

I want to test a string to see it contains certain words. i.e: $string = "The rain in spain is certain as the dry on the plain is over and it is not clear"; preg_match('`\brain\b`',$strin...

I'm using Terminal on Snow Leopard. At the command line, if I've typed foo.bar.baz.bang.quuz.quux, when i tap option-B, it moves the cursor backward word by word -- stopping at every period, becau...