I must state this by stating that I am working with VB6 and RegExp
I am trying to find and replace whole words with "whole words". I mean, a valid match is not a substring of another word, although some special characters will be fine. I am new to regular expressions. This is what I tried:
([^a-z]+)(Foo)([^a-z]+)
It seems close, but in some situations I have problems.
For example, if I find a string
Foo Foo
or
Foo(Foo)
or somewhere the line ends with foo and the next line starts with foo
This is a line with Foo
Foo starts the next line
In any of these cases, only the first Foo is matched.
Well, maybe this is not a problem with the match, but my replacement method. I don’t know exactly how to verify this. I use groups to replace any bounding char matching an expression, for example:
regEX.Replace(source, "$1" & newstring & "$3")
, :
FooBar
BarFoo
:
Foo Foo
Foo Bar
foo_bar
Foo.bar
Foo, bar
Foo ()
Foo (Foo)
- , !
, . , , - char, , , . , , ?
(\b)(Foo)(\b|_)
regEX.Replace(source, "$1" & newstring & "$3")
, .