A couple things here. To match a word boundry, you're going to want to use a \b. If you're storing these words you're matching against in an array, you're going to want to quote the variable with  \Q \E.

Here's an example that I use in something where I want to filter out lines of a file that contain words in an array. 

sub filter_line {
  my ($i, $line);
  $line = shift;    
  foreach $i (@_) { 
    if ($line =~ /\b\Q$i\E\b/) { return 1 } 
  }
  return 0;
}

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Hope this helps..
Rich

Addition: Read perlre and look at what constitutes a word boundry. In your example, it will match radio and not radiohead, but it will also match radio-head or radio.head, etc. But it will consider the underbar ( _ ) as part of the word.. so it won't match radio_head.

In reply to Re: Word Boundary Matching by rchiav
in thread Word Boundary Matching by daviddhall

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