in reply to Word find and replace with bold
The \b sequence is used in regular expressions to find the boundary between "word characters" and "non-word characters". That's often useful to mark the beginning and end of a word.
if (/\b$some_regex\b) { ... }
But Word documents aren't plain text files. So I don't know how well plain text regexes will work.
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