Using a Regular Expression to capture a word that contains a letter at a specific position?

Question

I'm looking for a regex expression that will highlight all words in a text document that contain a letter at a specific position that I specify in the expression.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Which language? Python, Bash...? Provide an example of what you want to achieve: https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve — Miguel Ortiz, Jul 03 '18 at 01:05
`\b[[:alpha:]]{X}L` where `X` is the character position and `L` is the letter. — dawg, Jul 03 '18 at 01:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '18 at 02:10

You can use:

\b\w{A}B\w*\b

where A is the the position - 1 where you want the character to appear, and B is the character you want.

for example if you want to highlight all the words that have the "x" character in the 3 position the you would use \b\w{2}x\w*\b (2 because the desired position is 3 so 3 - 1 = 2)

check this regex101 to see it working and play with it

Using a Regular Expression to capture a word that contains a letter at a specific position?

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