Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try it.

I had a hunch that i am too clever about using qr//.

I prefer using UTF-8 as the encoding. If i use Unicode, do i still need to set a locale? I didn't set a locale, but i saved all the relevant files as UTF-8 and said

use encoding 'utf8';
...
open my $FILE_HANDLE, "<:utf8", $FILE_NAME;

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... And it seems that \b works as intended, even if the rest of the pattern is not so good :)

Character range is problematic for Belarusian, because in Unicode the order of the letters is the Russian standard, and Belarusian is slightly different. So i think that it is safest to simply write all the possible letters.

Any thoughts?...

In reply to Re^2: variables in regex character classes by amir_e_a
in thread variables in regex character classes by amir_e_a

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