On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 01:05:30PM -0600, Doug McNutt wrote:
>
> That would need modification to handle the case there the letters
> constituting $word appear within another "word" that has more characters
> than $word.
>
> while (<>) { /\W$word\W/ or print }
>
> Is a start requiring that $word be surrounded by two non-word characters
> but will fail when $word begins or ends a line.
This is exactly what the word boundary assertion is for:
/\b$word\b/
Ronald
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