Greetings Monks!

I am new to perl & trying to do some regex codes. Now I need your help to proceed further. A full day now & I didn't find a solution yet for this.

Ok, here is it!

This code works,
$title =~ /\b$kw\b/g;

This code also works
$title =~ /\Q$kw/g;

How to make this both work in a single code ?
ie, something like this,
$title =~ /\Q\b$kw\b/g; (BTW, this code won't work for me!)

What I want to achieve,
1) Match words(& count them) in a string but don't check in the substings. (reason why I used \b)
2) To be able to escape certain regex characters (like +) and consider them when matching words (reason why I used \Q)

An example scenario,
When you give .NET as $kw, the count should be 3 and not 4
when you give C++, the count should be 0 instead of 2
When you give C, the count should be 1

my $kw = ".NET";   
# For different scenarios pls use C (& then C++) instead of .NET for $
+kw
my $title = "C .NET Cobol .NET .NET .NETER Perl";
my $count = () = $title =~ /$kw/ig;  
print $count;
die;

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Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you

In reply to Regex help \b & \Q by Anonymous Monk

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