Small regex project for pay

[Paul Dupuis]

I have a small outsource coding project.

Given a variable tContent which contains a bunch of text and a variable
tString which contains a search string and a function that:

1) searches tContent using matchChunk(tContent,tRegex,tStart,tEnd)
repeatedly building a cr delimited list of start and end character
positions of all the occurrences of tString in tContent. So for tContent of:

'Now is the time for all good people to be good people.'

And tString of 'people', the function returns a delimited list:

30,35
48,53

2) The function supports optional Boolean parameters to support case
sensitivity/insensitivity

Note: while this can be done easily with the offset function, the next
parts can't

3) The function supports 4 search modes (a) the normal character search
described in (1) where tString can be a substring of any part of
tContent; (b) [the part you can't do with offset) support whole matches
(i.e. tString should only match is the char before tString is white
space (including cr) or punctuation and the char after tString is also
white space or punctuation; (c) support Begins With where tString is
preceded by white space/punctuation for begin with; and (d) Ends With
where tString terminates with white space/punctuation for ends with.

(a),(b),(c), and (d) are mutually exclusive options, but (2) case
sensitivity should work with any of the four modes

I have a framework for the function (currently using offset and not
supporting all the options). To change it to using matchChunk, I really
need the regex expressions for the options:

i.e something like:

switch pMode
  case "normal"
    if tCaseSenitive = true then
      put <someregex>&tString&<somemoreregex> into tRegexToUse
    else
      put <someregex>&tString&<somemoreregex> into tRegexToUse
    end if
    break
  case "whole"
    if tCaseSenitive = true then
      put <someregex>&tString&<somemoreregex> into tRegexToUse
    else
      put <someregex>&tString&<somemoreregex> into tRegexToUse
    end if
    break
  case "begins"
    ...
  case "ends"
    ...
end switch
Or some variation of this code (perhaps the case sensitivity option is a
single if before or after the switch

So, I am looking for the regex and a sample function in a stack that
demonstrates the regex performs the matches correctly for the 8 test
cases (4 modes with or without case sensitivity)

Email me your price for this job to paul at researchware.com