>is there a way to look for a word in a memo field text but only find whole words.
>eg: looking for KING should finf Martin Luther King but not lurking
>even if KING is at the beginning of a line or sentence or at the end therof.
>
>maybe REGEX could work, but how
>
>
>Peter

&& the \b matches a word boundary
	local obj
	obj = createobject('VBScript.RegExp')
	obj.Global = FALSE
	obj.IgnoreCase = TRUE
	obj.Pattern = '\bking\b'
	
	?obj.Test('king and I')  && TRUE
	?obj.Test('kingsolomon and I') && FALSE
	
	return 

see also: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974570.aspx