Regex to match exactly a word

Question

So im looking to get a regex to find exactly some words and not all word that contain that word My regex looks like this

"^.*?(java.*|test.*|dev.*).*$"

At this moment:

I want to make it so that only exactly these words"java,test,dev" are matched and not every word that contains these words.

im using android studio to develop a java app. java.util.regex — Roxx, Jun 22 '20 at 19:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '20 at 18:45

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For PCRE you can use word boundaries

\b(java|test|dev)\b

answered Jun 22 '20 at 18:45

on8tom

Thank you for your answer but im not able to use PCRE. – Roxx Jun 22 '20 at 18:55
then what version are you using? – on8tom Jun 22 '20 at 18:58

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