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Fix confusing wording in 9.6 (Word boundary: \b)
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Ilya Kantor 2020-12-13 20:29:03 +03:00 • committed by GitHub
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@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ So, it matches the pattern `pattern:\bHello\b`, because:
2. Then matches the word `pattern:Hello`.
3. Then the test `pattern:\b` matches again, as we're between `subject:o` and a comma.
The pattern `pattern:\bHello\b` would also match. But not `pattern:\bHell\b` (because there's no word boundary after `l`) and not `Java!\b` (because the exclamation sign is not a wordly character `pattern:\w`, so there's no word boundary after it).
So the pattern `pattern:\bHello\b` would match, but not `pattern:\bHell\b` (because there's no word boundary after `l`) and not `Java!\b` (because the exclamation sign is not a wordly character `pattern:\w`, so there's no word boundary after it).
```js run
alert( "Hello, Java!".match(/\bHello\b/) ); // Hello