regex: \<start-of-word, and end-of-word\> not in gsub?

[Shea Martin]

I often use \< and \> to denote the start and end of word. But they
don't seem to work with gsub. Am I missing something?

I would expect the following:
"xword1 word2 tword3".gsub( /\<word, 'XXXX' )

to return "xword1 XXXX2 tword3", but instead it the string unchanged.

If the \< and \> are not supported, is there an alternative that ruby
provides? Thanks.

Thanks,

~S

 

[Rodrigo Bermejo]

I often use \< and \> to denote the start and end of word. But they
don't seem to work with gsub. Am I missing something?

I would expect the following:
"xword1 word2 tword3".gsub( /\<word, 'XXXX' )

to return "xword1 XXXX2 tword3", but instead it the string unchanged.

If the \< and \> are not supported, is there an alternative that ruby
provides? Thanks.

Thanks,

~S

"xword1 word2 tword3".gsub( /\bword/, 'XXXX' )

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