>-----Original Message-----
>From: John W. Krahn [mailto:jwkr...@shaw.ca]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 15:06
>To: Perl Beginners
>Subject: Re: Word boundaries
>
>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.
>
>
But for the test you were doing, you could have added this:
(\b{0,1}\W\b) which would have gotten you the ? as the output, but
unsure that that is what you really wanted...
If you have any questions and/or problems, please let me know.
Thanks.
Wags ;)
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>
>John
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