Regex.Match whole words

Question

In C#, I want to use a regular expression to match any of these words:

string keywords = \"(shoes|shirt|pants)\";

I want to fi

Answer 1

Try

Regex.Match(content, @"\b" + keywords + @"\b", RegexOptions.Singleline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)

\b matches on word boundaries. See here for more details.