Word search
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My program is going through each word in a story looking for names. I am using the following function to check against a string full of names (aaron, adam, ...) to see if the word is a name, but it is returning true for partial word matches such as "the" in "Theodore". What am I doing wrong?
Public Function WordExists(ByVal searchString As String, ByVal findString As String) As Boolean
Dim returnValue As Boolean = False
If System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Matches(searchString, "\b" & findString & "\b").Count > 0 Then returnValue = True
Return returnValue
End FunctionPrivate Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
If WordExists(NameList, TextBox2.Text) = True
Then MsgBox("Yep!")
Else MsgBox("Nope!")
End If
End SubThank you for your help!
Amerigo
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My program is going through each word in a story looking for names. I am using the following function to check against a string full of names (aaron, adam, ...) to see if the word is a name, but it is returning true for partial word matches such as "the" in "Theodore". What am I doing wrong?
Public Function WordExists(ByVal searchString As String, ByVal findString As String) As Boolean
Dim returnValue As Boolean = False
If System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Matches(searchString, "\b" & findString & "\b").Count > 0 Then returnValue = True
Return returnValue
End FunctionPrivate Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
If WordExists(NameList, TextBox2.Text) = True
Then MsgBox("Yep!")
Else MsgBox("Nope!")
End If
End SubThank you for your help!
Amerigo
You should check the next character for a space, period or line terminator to determine the length of the word.
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