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What would be the regular expression to find exact words, while excluding compounded words that contain the searched string.
For example I would like to match the string "wood floor" in "best wood floor" but not "hardwood floor", "hardwood flooring" "best hardwood floor".
All you need to do is check . matches newline in Notepad++ Search/Replace Search Mode:
This will make the dot . in your regex match newline, so .* will match any number of newlines.
You get a success because the regex matches on a portion of it.
If you want an exact match, you need to anchor the pattern to the start and end of the line: regex="^lo(lo)+ba$"
^ stands for the start of the string: nothing can be before the pattern$ stands for the end of the string: nothing can be afterIn your original code, as the pattern is not anchored, the pattern matching does not care of what could be before of after, if at least a portion of the string validates the pattern.
Best Answer
What is the regular expression to find exact words, excluding compounded words?
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\<wood floor\>Enable "Regular expression".
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Notes:
\<matches the start of a word using Scintilla's definitions of words.\>matches the end of a word using Scintilla's definition of words.Further reading