Question

I’m trying to count words using Regex, with the following pattern:
@"\\w+"

This works, however it’s matching it’s as:

• it
• s

Is there a better way to match words that contain punctuation?

Also, words surrounded by punctuation, for example 'word' should also be matched (withhout the ‘)

Answer 1

The one way to test for such cases is:

@"\\w+(?:'\\w+)?"

So it will match both its and it's, but only its in its'.