Search for full word instead of part inside of it-CodePudding

I'm trying to find exact word in text user is sending, but obviously, when I'm trying to use message.content.includes(), it's also looking for parts of the word in text which I don't need! Any way to search by full words only?

Few examples: **TexT**, HeLlO, etc.

CodePudding user response：

Yes, you can use a regex like this, assuming wordToFind holds the word you are searching for:

// Create regex from word with \b at each end which
// means "word boundary", and the 'i' option means
// case-insensitive
const wordSearch = new RegExp(`\b${wordToFind}\b`, 'i');

// Use the regular expression to test the content:
const hasWord = wordSearch.test(message.content);

// will be true if whole word is found

CodePudding user response：

Put your content in to an array, splitting words if it's a piece of text. Array.includes will match whole words.

So either [content].includes(word) or content.split(' ').includes(word)