<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>Valentina uses IBM ICU library as you,<br>OS X itself also btw.<br><br><br>I have go to Googl, and type ICU REGEX.<br>Search have bring me to<br><br><a href="http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/regexp">http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/regexp</a><br><br><br>It seems you correctly using \b<br><br>May be problem in escape of string with query?<br><br><br></div></blockquote></div>Hi Ruslan,<div><br></div><div>There is no escape necessary in the search string I posted, just the word "the"</div><div><br></div><div>\bthe\b</div><div><br></div><div>Can you try this? Does that search work for you?</div><div><br></div><div>Jon</div></body></html>