Word Boundaries

[jbrooksuk]

There should be a method for wrapping words in \bword\b boundaries boundary and perhaps a beginBoundary and endBoundary method too.

[selvinortiz]

What do you think about word( $stric=false )?

If you call word(true) it will add (\b\w+\b) something along those lines rather than having to call another method which can get a little too verbose. Maybe we do need beginBoundary so we can apply it to other methods but I'm not sure.

[jbrooksuk]

What about expressions such as \bHello\b? Having a beginBoundary and endBoundary which would be called internally too could work.

[selvinortiz]

I have to think about this because I don't want to have two methods that have a single purpose but we do need to support word boundaries... I'll run some benchmarch tests between then() which generates (Hello) and the hypo word( $val='' ) which now yield (Hello) but we can change that to yield (\bHello\b) instead since the name of the method is word singular and not words maybe the default behavior should be a bounded words?

I would appreciate your thoughts on this and a couple of use cases as that we'll help me figure out and think through what the best option would be here.