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How do I search for an exact match to a phrase or word in Flash Builder's search tool?

For example, in my project I have a class with a function named "removeEvent". If I search on it, I get all instances where "removeEventListener" is used and of course that is not helpful.

I have searched on the web but only come up with similarly unhelpful false hits (how ironic).

It appears I can use regex but I don't know how to do that and trying this answer to a regex question was no help

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Enable the regular expression option and then use the below regex.

\bremoveEvent\b

\b called word boundary which helps to do an exact match.. \b matches between a word charcater and non-word character, vice-versa..

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