Previous \<, \>, \b indicates boundry. \< is beginning of word, \> is end of word. \b indicates either boundry.
if u just put '<' in regex, it means character '<', nothing special.

e.g. /\<hell/ will only match such string/word like 'hello', 'hell' but not 'shell'

however, i seldom use word anchor. (but maybe someone else does) <\em>

I hold this statement for a while. No argument on this. I suspend these anchors ( \< , \> ) and just use \b instead. I'll be more careful next time. Sorry everyone. This information actually referred to unreliable / wrong sources. Thanks for all feedbacks.

In reply to Re^6: Regex Tool by Yunus
in thread Regex Tool by Yunus

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