Hi Guys n Gals,
I have found some seemingly strange behavior that may
be of interest to this list.
My assumption was that the \b pattern in a regex would
always match the beginning and end of a string (as
documented in the perlre page). However on my build of
5.8.7 this is not the case if the
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:05:47PM -0800, Carl Eklof wrote:
Hi Guys n Gals,
I have found some seemingly strange behavior that may
be of interest to this list.
My assumption was that the \b pattern in a regex would
always match the beginning and end of a string (as
documented in the
On 11/15/06, Carl Eklof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Guys n Gals,
I have found some seemingly strange behavior that may
be of interest to this list.
My assumption was that the \b pattern in a regex would
always match the beginning and end of a string (as
documented in the perlre page).
Thanks to both Ben, and Ronald for correcting me. I
had misunderstood the documentation.
I do expect that others may also think that using
$string =~ /\b$sub_str\b/ is a reasonable way to match
a substring on word-boundaries, or beginning/end of
the string, but hopefully they will realize the
CE == Carl Eklof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CE My assumption was that the \b pattern in a regex would
CE always match the beginning and end of a string (as
CE documented in the perlre page). However on my build of
CE 5.8.7 this is not the case if the character being
CE matched at the
