On 7/12/06, Robert Cussons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Max and Chip, I didn't realis that \< and \> were used to denote the beginning and end of the word and therefore they could be used separately, I always just thought of them as a way of getting an exact match, which I suppose is almost the same thing, however, I still don't understand why you can't exclusively mark the start of this string with \<
Try /\*\<word\> , it will work. But /\<\* will never match, becuse \< requires alphabetic character after it. When you put non-alphabetic char [*] to the right of \<, \< will *NEVER* match. I know this is non-intuituve, but this is how it works. \< requires alphabetic char to the right of it. This is why \<[*] never matches. \< requires alphabetic char to the right of it. This is why \<\* never matches. \< requires alphabetic char right after it. Thisis the reason \<\* never matches. Yakov
