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  3. June 2019

Re: Need help with a regex pattern

I am programmatically searching source for variable names and this regex
eliminates anything with a valid variable name char before or after the
variable. For example, if I am searching for ACCT, this would eliminate
ACCT01 or EXPACCT but not ACCT, or ACCT)

Will this work?

(?:\s+)ACCT(?:[^\w_@#\$]+)

You've quoted the part of the problem that he's already "solved", and
your "solution" doesn't meet his needs as well as his own (which he
already provided up front). What he's really after is in the next
paragraph:

It is my understanding that I need to compile the expression into a pattern
and then use that pattern to compare to my string. However, as you can see
from the original above, there is a variable value in the middle of my
expression.

John Y.

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