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Update:Fixed "flop" typo (Thanks, LanX)

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by ozosan (Initiate) on Nov 14, 2013 at 09:36 UTC

    Thank you very much for your help indeed there was a precedence issue so $record =~ /^start\b$/ .. $record =~ /^end\b$/ fixed the issue...many thanks indeed. and as for the "\b" in the regex yes you are right its not needed, thank you.

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