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1. Why can't I use accented characters next to a word boundary?    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to make a dynamic regex that matches a person's name. It works without problems on most names, until I ran into accented characters at the end of the name. Example: ...

2. Javascript RegExp and boundaries    stackoverflow.com

A colleague asked me about a Regular expression problem, and I can't seem to find and answer for him. We're using boundaries to highlight certain lengths of text in a text editor, ...

3. hashtag boundaries matching regex in javascript    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to match a set of hashtags or words in a javascript string.

(#hashtag|word)

\b(#hashtag|word)\b

4. Regular Expression that is Eval'ed with Word Boundaries    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to create a bad word filter that throws out tweets that contain any of the words in a provided list, case insensitive. Only problem is that I want to ...

5. How can I make a regular expression which takes accented characters into account?    stackoverflow.com

I have a JavaScript regular expression which basically finds two-letter words. The problem seems to be that it interprets accented characters as word boundaries. Indeed, it seems that

A word ...

6. Word boundary matching in Javascript    stackoverflow.com

Regex Pattern: \bgoogle\b Test case: http://www.google.com/ It matches. My question is why ? Thank you.

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

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

8. Word boundary won't match the beginning or end in Javascript    stackoverflow.com

I'm getting unexpected results with this code:

'foo'.match(new RegExp('\bfoo\b')); // Returns null

'foo'.match(new RegExp('foo')); // Returns "foo"

9. Javascript regular expression for searching word boundaries in Unicode string    stackoverflow.com

Is there solution to find word boundaries in Japanese string (E.g.: "??????????????") via JavaScript regular expressions("xregexp" JS library cab be used)? E.g.:

var xr = RegExp("\\bst","g");
xr.test("The string") // --> true

10. How can I find a user-supplied string between word boundaries using JavaScript regular expressions?    stackoverflow.com

I have a body of text that I'm searching using JavaScript. I let the user specify an arbitrary string, then I want to search for that string, with the condition ...