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Technically it doesn't match `the blank'. As perlre states it matches at a `\w\W' or '\W\w' transition (it doesn't match anything literally as it's zero width, just at a point where the previous character is \w and the next is \W (or vice versa)).

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Re: Re: Re: finding whole words in a string
by hopes (Friar) on May 07, 2002 at 19:24 UTC
    Sure Fletch, I was not clear. I would had to say:

    \b matches the nothing after and before ...


    Hopes 
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