Is There An Efficient Whole Word Search Function in Delphi?

Question

In Delphi 2009 or later (Unicode), are there any built-in functions or small routines written somewhere that will do a reasonably efficient whole word search where you provi

Answer 1

This function is not exactly what you need but it is pretty close:

I hope it is useful:

{ Copy all whole words from MainStr. The result will not have more than MaxChars characters. }

function CopyWords(MainStr: string; MaxChars: Integer): string;   
VAR EndsInSpace: Boolean;
    EndString, i: Integer;
    NextChar: char;
begin
 Assert(MaxChars > 0);
 EndString:= MaxChars;

 if Length(MainStr) > MaxChars then
  begin
   NextChar:= mainstr[MaxChars+1];

   if (MainStr[MaxChars] <> ' ') AND (NextChar <> ' ')
   then
     begin
      for i:= MaxChars downto 1 DO
       if MainStr[i]= ' ' then
        begin
         EndString:= i;
         Break;
        end
     end
   else
    if (MainStr[MaxChars]  = ' ')
    OR (MainStr[MaxChars] <> ' ') AND (NextChar = ' ')
    then EndString:= MaxChars;
  end;

 Result:= CopyTo(MainStr, 1, EndString);
 Result:= TrimRight(Result);
end;