_brian_d_foy wrote in perl.perlfaq.workers : > * I discovered a slight error in perlre: it defines \b in > terms of \w and \W, but that isn't strictly true since > the start and end of strings can stand in for non-word > characters. perlre needs a slight patch before I can > reference it.
You're not the first one : http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/96004 it's difficult to find a clear and pedagogical wording for it, though.
