[TxMt] find with "match entire word"

[Ian Smith-Dahl]

I'm not totally following you, but it sounds like you want to search  
over the pattern boundaries without matching them.    If so, then you  
want to look at the look-ahead, (?=foo), and look-behind (?<=foo)  
expressions.

HTH,
-- Ian

On Jul 18, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Craig Schmidt wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> This seems like a FAQ, but I haven't been able to find the answer  
> after some looking. Textmate doesn't have a "match entire word"  
> check box in the find dialog, like most text editors.  Presumably,  
> we're supposed to use regular expressions to achieve the same  
> effect.  Most times, the word is a variable name.  So for my  
> variable x in C++, I want to find all uses including:
>
> x[i]
> x->foo
> x.bar
>
> I've been trying to bracket the variable with the "non word  
> character", so I search for the regular expression \Wx\W
>
> This excludes xbar, and foox. However, this isn't quite the same as  
> matching just the word, as the find dialog also selects the  
> previous and next character, matching the \W. I can't use it in a  
> replace, for example.  Is there some cleaner way of doing this?
>
> Thanks,
> Craig Schmidt
>
>
>
>
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