Question

I am trying to look for a word in a String.

re = new RegExp("bob");
checkWord = re.test("This is bobby!");
if (checkWord) { break; }

I want checkWord = false as I am only looking for “bob”, but it checkWord = true as “bobby” contains the word “bob”. What can I do to solve this problem? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can achieve this with two different ways:

give boundries

\bbob\b    

or group them

\b(bob)\b 

Both will work.

This is the working example:

Example

And if you are working with array then loop through each and check individually.