How to find words containing a certain letter with Regular Expressions?

Question

I need a regular expression to find any words containing the letter \"y\".

This was my idea:

/\\bw*[y]\\w*\\b/

a word boundary, som

Answer 1

maybe try this:

[a-zA-Z]*y[a-zA-Z]*

This finds all words that have the letter 'y'.

I hope I helped. I tested it on http://regexpal.com/