On Jun 2, Siegfried Heintze said:
How do I search for the word "intern" without searching for "internal"?
What I have been doing is /intern[^a]/ but that won't match /intern$/.
You want to use a negative look-ahead:
/intern(?!al)/
That means "match 'intern' that is not followed by 'al'". But perhaps you
just want to use word boundaries?
/\bintern\b/
That will only match "intern" when there are no word characters to the
left or right of it. Thus, "I am an intern" will match, but "internal
problems" and "abintern" won't match. ("Abintern" isn't a word, but I
wanted to prove a point.)
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