regex word boundary excluding the hyphen

Question

i need a regex that matches an expression ending with a word boundary, but which does not consider the hyphen as a boundary. i.e. get all expressions matched by

Answer 1

I had a pretty similar problem except I didn't want to consider the '*' as a boundary character. Here's what I did:

\b(?

Basically, if you're at a word boundary, look back one character and don't match if the previous character was an '*'. If you're in the middle, don't match on a space or asterisk. If you're at the end, make sure the end isn't an asterisk. In your case, I think you could use \w instead of \s. For me, this worked in these situations:

*word
wo*rd
word*