Some text matching questions

[ProxRocks]

"[a-z0-9]" will match for any alphanumeric character...

set your match to "(^[a-z0-9.:_\\-])pink(^[a-z0-9.:_\\-])"

this will match "pink" but will NOT match "1pink", "\pink" (you need TWO \'s the first is a "proxo escape string"), "pink.", ":pink", "pink:", "pink1", "pinkie", et cetera...

the .:_\\- portion will need to include every possible character that you want to NOT match when before or after "pink"...


edit: really the only way to prevent from matching within a "tag" is to set up a "preserve" filter at the "top" of your config that is NOT a "multi=TRUE" so that filters below it will NOT search for matches that the first filter replaced content with...