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Re: Searching for "whole word" in NSString




On Jan 29, 2008, at 11:38 AM, John Stiles wrote:

Oh well, off to Radar to file a bug on the Find panel, and I'll figure out some sort of solution. I can probably use NSCharacterSet or something and look at the characters on either side of the found text. I was hoping to avoid that, but it looks like I can't.

You should still be able to build on doubleClickAtIndex: to determine word boundaries at either end of your search string and in the found text, and then implement whatever boundary-matching semantics you choose on top of that, without having to use NSCharacterSet or anything of the sort. Word boundary detection is complicated enough (cf. UAX #29, "Text Boundaries", at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/) that you really don't want to have to implement it yourself.


Douglas Davidson

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 >Re: Searching for "whole word" in NSString (From: Citizen <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Searching for "whole word" in NSString (From: Douglas Davidson <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Searching for "whole word" in NSString (From: John Stiles <email@hidden>)



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