Check for a Single word in a String (JS)

Question

So I've got this string:

 This was a sentence

Now I want it to to check if the word 'is' is in the sentence. Using most methods e.g.

 (Sentence.Contains("is"))
 
 ("is" in Sentence)

It will output as 'true', because it is looking at the word "This" and getting the "is" from that.

How would I get it so it only matches to whole words seperated by spacing?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Answer by Eric5h5 · Nov 08, 2014 at 03:58 AM

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Lemo76 · Nov 08, 2014 at 06:37 AM 0

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How would I implement this in javascript?

Eric5h5 · Nov 08, 2014 at 07:19 AM 0

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The same as in C#; Regex.$$anonymous$$atch and so on are .NET functions that are usable in any language.

Lemo76 · Nov 08, 2014 at 09:54 AM 0

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've tried

 print (Regex.$$anonymous$$atch("This was a sentence", @"\b" + "is" + @"\b", RegexOptions.Singleline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase));

and

 print (Regex.Is$$anonymous$$atch("This was a sentence", "is"));

neither seem to work and I am very unsure on the syntaxing/formatting as this is a grey area to me.

tanoshimi · Nov 08, 2014 at 10:05 AM 0

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 Debug.Log (Regex.$$anonymous$$atch("This was a sentence", @"\bis\b"));

Eric5h5 · Nov 08, 2014 at 04:43 PM 0

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Get rid of the "@", since JS doesn't have that.

 Debug.Log (Regex.$$anonymous$$atch("This was a sentence", "\\bis\\b").Success);