From: Johan Holmberg <holmberg@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T04:09:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression question

dblack@candle.superlink.net writes:
> 
> On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Rich Kilmer wrote:
> 
> > Actually I did not need the - so the /\Adec(?[\w])/ worked great.
> 
> In that case you don't need the [...], because \w creates an implicit
> character class of its own.  (But you *do* need to restore the '!' :-)
> 
>   /\Adec(?!\w)/
> 

I think you could write this

    /\Adec\b/

where \b matches the "word boundary" after "dec".


/Johan Holmberg