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whole word file search [message #650385]

Mon, 24 January 2011 17:12

Steve Cohen

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Registered: July 2009

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I have not, until now, attempted to use a Regular Expression in the file search dialog. My aim here is to do a simple whole word search which is not directly supported in this dialog. However, I'd always assumed but never tried using regular expressions for this. I'd like to find all instances of the word "ADDRESS". As the regular expression, I type in "\wADDRESS\w" and it returns all words containing "ADDRESS" - in other words, the word-boundary tags in my regex are being ignored.

Is this a bug in Eclipse or is it expecting the regex in some other flavor? Help documentation is silent on this issue.

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Re: whole word file search [message #650409 is a reply to message #650385]

Mon, 24 January 2011 18:08

Deepak Azad

Messages: 543
Registered: July 2009

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On 1/24/2011 10:42 PM, Steve Cohen wrote:
> I have not, until now, attempted to use a Regular Expression in the file
> search dialog. My aim here is to do a simple whole word search which is
> not directly supported in this dialog. However, I'd always assumed but
> never tried using regular expressions for this. I'd like to find all
> instances of the word "ADDRESS". As the regular expression, I type in
> "\wADDRESS\w" and it returns all words containing "ADDRESS" - in other
> words, the word-boundary tags in my regex are being ignored.
You should try "\WADDRESS\W" (uppercase W). \w (lowercase) matches word
characters (letters, digits, and underscores).
>
> Is this a bug in Eclipse or is it expecting the regex in some other
> flavor? Help documentation is silent on this issue.
>
>

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