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As others have mentioned, you aren't going to find palindromes with that. Single word palindromes are problematic without some code magic. You really need regex recursion, which is what Regexp::Common::lingua does.

There are ways to do it with embedded regex ??{code}, without being as fancy as in R::C::l, but I'd go with R::C::l. If you really want to do it yourself, it's easy enough to Google for these, so I'll leave that up to you.

As far as I know, there's not an easy way to skip over whitespace, without explicitly stripping it out first (but maybe I'm just not being creative enough today).

-QM
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2005-12-12 Retitled by jdporter: s/boundry/boundary/
Original title: 'regex at word boundry'

In reply to Re: regex at word boundary by QM
in thread regex at word boundary by mikeraz

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