\b is only going to find a work boundary for you if you agree with what \w thinks is a word character. If you want to have an expanded notion of what is a word, using \b is not going to do what you want.

In this case, I don't see any need for it at all, though. Just removing the \b's should do what you want. Perhaps add [;&\w] at the end if you don't want it to end with a hyphen.

Your regex will set $1 to everything from the first hyphen on, or to the last character of the "word" if there were no hyphens. That seems kind of bizzare. Are you using $1? If so, exactly which part of the word to you want it to contain? If not, you can simplify it to m/[;&\w][-;&\w]+/g, or if you mean to only match hyphenated words, m/[;&\w]+-[-;&\w]+/g.

Your //s and //i flags have no effect with your regex.

In reply to Re: Regex not matching & by Anomynous Monk
in thread Regex not matching & by murugu

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