It would no longer match do to the fact that the match must match the exact string passed

But the  \b assertion does not require an "exact" match, as I understand the term, but rather the presence of a word boundary (based on the  \w character class). So you can have the following "exact" match with 'Ba': 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"use List::MoreUtils qw(any);
 ;;
 my $match = 'Ba';
 my @array = ('Ba Ba Black Sheep');
 ;;
 print 'exact match?' if any { /\b$match\b/ } @array;
"
exact match?

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In reply to Re^4: Comparison between a string and an array by AnomalousMonk
in thread Comparison between a string and an array by Eth443

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