word character

Between a word character and a nonword character immediately after the word character.

Another necessary element of many spells is, for lack of a more precise word, character.

The character which when preceded by an escape character represents any word character.

Word boundaries are places in a string that come between a word character and a non-word character.

It checks if one of the characters is a non-word character and the other is a word character.

It says, if an 'a' shows up, and is followed by a word character WC, print 'e'.

word -- Any word character - all alphanumeric characters plus the underscore.

The regex reads, "A sequence of whole words 'the' or 'of' followed by a non-word character. "

The word character is used as an abstract term.

After the last character in the string, if the last character is a word character.

It augments $i_seen to 1, and $i_seen is only set back to 0 if a non-word character or a newline are seen.

The . . . WC production syntax means that a word character must follow the a, but will not be consumed in the match.

Because the i in import is still considered a word character, it will match import.

Before the first character in the string, if the first character is a word character.

A word character is any letter, decimal digit, or punctuation connector such as an underscore.

W -- A non-word character (everything else)

w -- A word character (a through z, A through Z, 0 through 9, and underscore)