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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 23:33:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:54:32 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> Every now and then I come across some nifty trick I didn't know about.
> One of my favourites is /\<foo\> - which finds the next occurrence of
> "foo" that is a complete word, i.e. it ignores "foobar".

In regular expressions, “\b” is the common symbol denoting a word 
boundary.