Regex in Word 2016

Question

I am not very into coding right now. I got a Regex task solved in the Word Regex Search function.

Question to solve: What is the Regex to find all numbers between 1,000 and 9,999.

This is what I got so far: " [1-9]{1}\\,[0-9]{3} ". the expression \\b does not work in Word so I used just a blank space in front of the expression.

Is there a way to get it working in Word? In Notepad++ the Expression. \\b is actually working?

Regards Johannes

Answer 1

In MS Word, \\b regex word boundaries do not work, the construct you need is < and > :

<[1-9],[0-9]{3}>

The < is a leading word boundary and > is a trailing word boundary.

To avoid matching the value before another comma (so as not to match 1,000 inside 1,000,000 ) you may use

<[1-9],[0-9]{3}>[!,]

where [!,] matches any chars but a comma. Note that <[1-9],[0-9]{3}>[!,] won't match a 1-9,999 number at the end of the document (it will if there is any other char after the number).