From 27241fda23905280c8b8a13d94efb46a7ebe9836 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Timothee Cour <timothee.cour2@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 08:55:17 -0800
Subject: fix #13528 nimgrep --word now works better with operators (#13537)

---
 tools/nimgrep.nim | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/nimgrep.nim b/tools/nimgrep.nim
index 51685e556..26e219330 100644
--- a/tools/nimgrep.nim
+++ b/tools/nimgrep.nim
@@ -649,7 +649,8 @@ else:
     if optIgnoreStyle in options:
       pattern = styleInsensitive(pattern)
     if optWord in options:
-      pattern = r"\b(:?" & pattern & r")\b"
+      # see https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/13528#issuecomment-592786443
+      pattern = r"(^|\W)(:?" & pattern & r")($|\W)"
     if {optIgnoreCase, optIgnoreStyle} * options != {}:
       reflags.incl reIgnoreCase
     let rep = if optRex in options: rex(pattern, reflags)
-- 
cgit 1.4.1-2-gfad0