As mentioned previously, \b seems to work for matching word boundaries. I've
updated the companies sample to support whole word searching in the Find
dialog. This is the function I came up with to do the work:

def findString(pattern, text, caseSensitive=0, wholeWordsOnly=0):
    """
    search for pattern in text and return the offset
    of the first match or -1 if the text is not found
    """
    if wholeWordsOnly or not caseSensitive:
        # we could probably just always use
        # a regular expression, but I'm guessing
        # that string find() is quicker
        if wholeWordsOnly:
            pattern = r'\b' + pattern + r'\b'
        if caseSensitive:
            p = re.compile(pattern)
        else:
            p = re.compile(pattern, re.IGNORECASE)
        match = p.search(text)
        if match == None:
            return -1
        else:
            return match.start()
    else:
        return text.find(pattern)

That can probably be made more elegant, suggestions welcome. I stuck it into
util.py, so that any PythonCard app can make use of it. I'll add support for
it in textEditor and other samples that do finds as well.

ka



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