I see that there is the \b which I have never used and I was wondering if someone can give me use cases when it is not possible to do without \b.
I see that there is the \b which I have never used and I
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I see that there is the \b which I have never used and I was wondering if someone can give me use cases when it is not possible to do without \b.
They match on different things –
\smatches on whitespace,\bon word boundaries.One good example is the character
..In the string
hello.hi:\swill not match., but\bwill match before and after it.