Add parameter to get word function

[pgensler]

It would be extremely helpful if you could add more parameters to the string functions to make them more powerful and useful. For example, adding a parameter into the get Word Function to match whole word only would be really nice in situations where you want to match the term VA, and not valley. Otherwise, you would end up building a regular expression to find what you are interested in when that may be overkill for the problem at hand.

[SeanAdams]

Agreed - it would be very useful to break down common regex uses as easy to approach string functions like

- FindWord: Finds a particular word in a string - similar to FindString, but it looks for whole words only

- IsDate: Checks if a string contains a date

Although not strictly a function of strings, it would be very useful if HTML and XML were treated as a native type, so that you could address the object model directly from Alteryx (like you could in the DOM when doing web programming).    This would allow very rich functionality that currently takes dozens of fragile regex components or nested XML parses today.

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