You could also look at \b in pattern matching. Use \bword\b to patch the word and _nothing_ else...

UPDATE: Chromatic has pointed this one out :)
chromatic says Re: "Complete match" regexes has an incorrect explanation. \b matches word *boundaries*. A regex not anchored can still match other things.


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