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[Maarten Sneep]

A double answer:

On 18 Dec 2005, at 16:32, Themis Matsoukas wrote:

> But would the space in front of figure find things like "blah blah.  
> Figure 2 shows ..." ?
> BTW, I normally say "see figure \ref{...}" without a forced "~"  
> space. And of course, "figure" in my posting is only an example;  
> the question is how to find a whole word, excluding from the search  
> long strings that contain the word. The problem with regular  
> expressions is that I have to think of all possible characters that  
> could surround my string (and if I had the time to do that, I'd  
> rather be doing something else!)

I would advise to use the forced space: it prevents an ugly linebreak  
between figure and the orphaned number.

The word boundary \b in regular expressions is probably your friend,  
although I'm not sure how it handles a backslash. It probably  
considers the point between the backslash and the word as a boundary.  
So commands are found.

On 18 Dec 2005, at 16:33, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> Better to search for
>
> 	\bfigure
>
> where "\b" indicates a "word boundary" (i.e., a boundary between  
> alphabetic and non-alphabetic characters, roughly speaking). This  
> is more general, and also avoids actually selecting the preceding  
> character. Could even use
>
> 	\bfigures?\b
>
> to find either "figure" or "figures", with word boundaries both sides.

I agree in general, although this finds the figure in \begin{figure}  
as well, so you have to be careful. Hey, that is the case with  
regular expressions: power comes with responsibility.

Maarten
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