Regex match entire words only

Question

I have a regex expression that I\'m using to find all the words in a given block of content, case insensitive, that are contained in a glossary stored in a database. Here\'s

Answer 1

use word boundaries \b,

The following (using four escapes) works in my environment: Mac, safari Version 10.0.3 (12602.4.8)

var myReg = new RegExp(‘\\\\b’+ variable + ‘\\\\b’, ‘g’)