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Example 14.17:
Regular Expressions - Finding Word Boundaries
[This example works with Netscape Navigator 4. It won't work with Netscape Navigator 2 or 3, or Internet Explorer 3.]
This time we're looking for a word boundary, the point at which a character meets a "non-word" character. Click the button and the script will search for the characters is, preceded and followed by any character other than a letter, number, or underscore. If the text is found, it's replaced with was.
Here's the function:
Here's the form:
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