@ivory You might want to rather use \b instead of (space),...

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@ivory You might want to rather use \b instead of (space), so you're also able to match hashtags and other non-alpha-numeric chars.

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Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

@daskaja That's a good option too!

20 Mar 2023 at 14:57 | Open on tapbots.social

Cedr\c :ivory_logo:

@ivory @daskaja How to include capital letters? "Elon" is not counted

20 Mar 2023 at 15:08 | Open on mstdn.paparasitic.com

Jens

@cedric @ivory \b[Ee][Ll][Oo][Nn]\b - not nice, but works

20 Mar 2023 at 15:10 | Open on mastodon.social

Jakub

@daskaja @cedric @ivory
To ignore case sensitive type:

(?i)\belon\b

20 Mar 2023 at 16:12 | Open on home.social

xinit ☕

@cedric

Yeah, a /i would be a help, for sure. Maybe [Ee]lon would work? I don't subscribe, and regex is one of the sub-only features.

On a tangent, wouldn't it be nice to have search/replace option in addition to basic filtering? Imagine /elon/shitbird/gi as a global filter, @ivory @daskaja

20 Mar 2023 at 15:43 | Open on mastodon.coffee

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@xinit @cedric @ivory @daskaja Try

(?i)\belon\b

But yeah, it should probably be in the UI.

20 Mar 2023 at 16:28 | Open on mastodon.cloud

xinit ☕

@Wevah

I'm out of regex practice, but the (?i) checks out on regex101.com

@cedric @ivory @daskaja

20 Mar 2023 at 16:33 | Open on mastodon.coffee

Josh Thomas

@cedric @ivory @daskaja \b[eE][lL][oO][nN]\b

20 Mar 2023 at 16:00 | Open on social.joshthomas.dev

John Mark Schofield

@cedric @ivory @daskaja Use the /i tag for case insensitivity.

20 Mar 2023 at 17:47 | Open on s.schof.org

burgatshow

@daskaja @ivory also a /i flag to make it case insensitive. ;)

20 Mar 2023 at 15:12 | Open on mstdn.social

Jens

@burgatshow @ivory I wasn't sure if modifiers were supported here, since the GUI is a bit misleading. But if so, better use /i

20 Mar 2023 at 15:14 | Open on mastodon.social

burgatshow

@daskaja @ivory sure. You are right. It is more like a suggestion to @ivory to implement the switch for case sensitivity.

20 Mar 2023 at 15:15 | Open on mstdn.social

Aaron Mahler

@daskaja @ivory Seemed a good test question to pose to ChatGPT - which resulted in precisely your same \b recommendation along with a decent description of the reasoning. I did that before seeing your reply, so not saying it validated your answer - more the other way around. :)