On 7/20/10 Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:06 PM, "John W. Krahn" <jwkr...@shaw.ca>
scribbled:
> Rob Dixon wrote:
>> On 20/07/2010 16:22, Chandan Kumar wrote:
>>>
>>> Small confusion about word boundaries. word boundaries matches
>>> anything between non-word character and word character ,right.
>>
>> Not quite.
>
> Quite.
>
>> /\b/ matches any (zero-length) point in a string between a
>> word and a non-word character,
>
> Correct.
>
>> or between a word character and the
>> beginning or end of the string,
>
> Incorrect. It matches *only* between \w and \W characters.
Then how are we to interpret this:
% perl -e '
$x = "abc";
if( $x =~ /\ba/ ) {
print "match\n";
}else{
print "no match\n";
}'
match
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