Am I asking too much of Perl regex?

;) No, is Perl regex asking too much by asking you to know what you're asking for ? *zing*

perlrequick

Luckily YAPE::Regex::Explain handles these 

use YAPE::Regex::Explain;
print YAPE::Regex::Explain->new(
'\b\$AVG'
)->explain;
__END__
The regular expression:

(?-imsx:\b\$AVG)

matches as follows:

NODE                     EXPLANATION
----------------------------------------------------------------------
(?-imsx:                 group, but do not capture (case-sensitive)
                         (with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
                         matching \n) (matching whitespace and #
                         normally):
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  \b                       the boundary between a word char (\w) and
                           something that is not a word char
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  \$                       '$'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  AVG                      'AVG'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
)                        end of grouping
----------------------------------------------------------------------

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use YAPE::Regex::Explain;
print YAPE::Regex::Explain->new(
'\w?\$AVG\b'
)->explain;
__END__The regular expression:

(?-imsx:\w?\$AVG\b)

matches as follows:
  
NODE                     EXPLANATION
----------------------------------------------------------------------
(?-imsx:                 group, but do not capture (case-sensitive)
                         (with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
                         matching \n) (matching whitespace and #
                         normally):
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  \w?                      word characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _)
                           (optional (matching the most amount
                           possible))
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  \$                       '$'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  AVG                      'AVG'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  \b                       the boundary between a word char (\w) and
                           something that is not a word char
----------------------------------------------------------------------
)                        end of grouping
----------------------------------------------------------------------

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In reply to Re^3: regex not matching special char by Anonymous Monk
in thread regex not matching special char by mnooning

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