Re: Regex Help

"inderpaul_s@xxxxxxxxx" <inderpaul_s@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

but reading on the \b means a word boundary but does it matter that I
want to find the pattern matching an IP address since the IP address
is made up of characters which are numeric and separated by a
decimal ?

\b is the zero width point between something which is a word character
(\w) and something which isn't (\W). Word characters is defined as
alphabetic characters (a-z, A-Z), decimal digits (0-9) and the
underscore character (_) (and depending on locale something more).

So the four numeric parts of an IP-address counts as words in relation
to \b.

//Makholm
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