Hi,

I'm have a little regex that I'm using to search and replace some content in a string: 

my $test = qq|Some test. This is a test-with a dash. We want to match 
+test here|;

$test =~ s{\b(test)\b}{change_for_url($1)}eg;

sub change_for_url {

    print "GOT: '$_[0]'\n";
}

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If I run this, I get: 
GOT: 'test'
GOT: 'test'
GOT: 'test'

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The problem is, I *don't* want to match "test-with" in my example. How do I go about ignoring parts like that? A real world example in the script I'm working with, is:

Régional Loire-Anjou-Touraine

I want to replace "loire" with a new string - but ONLY if its not part of Loire-Anjou-Touraine

Please let me know if you need more clarification :)

Thanks

Andy

In reply to Regex boundary match by ultranerds

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