Finding Variations in a Words (like John, Johny, Jon, Jonathan) using regular expressions with .net

In this regular expression we are going to find out variations in a Words like John, Johny, Jon, Jonathan. Just take a look at above words they all same begining "jo".

Regular Expression Pattern

\b[jJ]o\w*\b

A description of the regular expression:

First or last character in a word
Any character in this class: [jJ]
o\w*\b
o
Alphanumeric, any number of repetitions
First or last character in a word

Sucessful Matches

John
Johny
Jon
Jonathan
joiee

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