in reply to Exclusive pattern matching..

By not using a regex of course! If you want exact matching, you'd use the eq operator.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Exclusive pattern matching..
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 22, 2002 at 03:09 UTC
    that wouldn't work too well for "i am user1" eq "user1", he probably meant something like  m{\b?\Q$word\E\b?}
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