REGEX: How to match a complete word followed by something in Visual Studio?

Asked Mar 29 '19 at 21:55

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Having the following text:

this is a sample of code() not real(),
 only for demostration() purpose

If I search in Sublime Text using the following regular expression: \w+\( it will iterate between:

But if I use Visual Studio the results will be:

asked Mar 29 '19 at 21:55

Do you mean something like `\b\w+\(`? – Wiktor Stribiżew Mar 29 '19 at 21:57
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@WiktorStribiżew, is it a documented behaviour of Visual Studio? – Matt.G Mar 29 '19 at 22:07
I don't know if that matters because if you replace the match, it gets replaced correctly. `\w+\(` works, too, as is. – Wiktor Stribiżew Mar 29 '19 at 22:18

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