I need to search a thesaurus such as 

var thesaurus = "@,disappear,dematerialise,vanish,@,fat,massive,immense,@" 

and return all synonyms (the words between @ seperated by commas) 

I came up with:

regex = ("@.*," +words[i]+ ".*?(?=@)");

matchArray = thesaurus.match(regex);

synonymLine = matchArray[0];

synonymLine = synonymLine.slice(2, -1); //removes start @, and end ,

essentially its matching the thesaurus for @.*,fat,.*@ problem is: it returns whole string from first @ to @ after word searched

so I need to: make it just get the synonyms that apply to the word

related javascript problem: Couldn't create a multi-line string so I made the thesaurus all one line.  Anyone know a workaround for both problems