import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) {
final String regex = "(?<![\\p{L}\\p{N}_])gen";
final String string = "To achieve this, I am using the regular expression /\\bsea/gmi, which works perfectly with English characters. However, it fails to produce the desired results when applied to Swedish characters, like 'ä', 'å', and 'ö'. For example, if the search word is 'gen', the postfix 'gen' in the word 'vägen' is incorrectly highlighted. It seems that the regular expression treats these characters as special characters or something similar. I even tried adding unicode modifier u but that didt't help either.\n\n"
+ "gen\n"
+ "gena\n"
+ "agen\n"
+ "ägen\n"
+ "genä\n";
final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex, Pattern.MULTILINE | Pattern.UNICODE_CASE);
final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(string);
while (matcher.find()) {
System.out.println("Full match: " + matcher.group(0));
for (int i = 1; i <= matcher.groupCount(); i++) {
System.out.println("Group " + i + ": " + matcher.group(i));
}
}
}
}
Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Java, please visit: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html