There is no regex capability which would allow you to specify e.g. word boundaries. "Tough beans." :-)

Yes, there is. It's called \b, and it looks for "word boundaries". Now, I believe that implementing the code to wrap the various regexed search terms correctly might be less trivial: I haven't looked at that code yet, so I don't know if the implementation somehow makes it difficult.

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In reply to Re^2: Exact words in super search by radiantmatrix
in thread Exact words in super search by LucaPette

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