Use \b to mark word boundaries. \bBig2\b
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "flexaustin" <flexaus...@...> wrote: > > I don't want to match just a word though. > > So in my app I have two standard objects that the user can use, which are > named "Big" and "Small". > > The user can open "Big" make some changes to it then if they want to save > those changes I don't want them saving it as "Big" or "Small", but they can > save it as "Big2" or "new_Small". > > So if the user types in "Big" and tries to save it I want to catch this in > validation and then use the regexvalidator to color the textinput border red. > > So if I just do a /Big/ or /Small/ then the user can't save it as "Big2" > because the regex will see the "Big" part in "Big2" and warn them "you can't > save it with this name". But "Big2" is valid not as it isn't just plain "Big" > > TIA,J >
