I replied to the other thread before I saw the double post (my answer was confused, to boot). But, I figured I'd use this as a good time to learn about lookaheads:

my @lines = ( q(String),
              q(I have a String),
              q(I have a String and a .c),
              q(I have a String.c),
              q(String.O) );

foreach (@lines) {
    #Look for String, not followed by .c, .o
    next unless /String(?![.][coCO])/;
    print $_ . "\n";
}

Output:
String
I have a String
I have a String and a .c

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I have to get less lazy about learning new facets of Perl, it is always much less painful/time-consuming to get a grasp of the basics than I think it is going to be.

In reply to Re^2: search for exact string by amarquis
in thread search for exact string by gfarhat

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