Says masem:
{ $topic =~ s/([^/W])$_([$/W])/$1$2/g; }
There are several errors here. You have /W where you seem to have meant \W. You have ^ inside a character class, where it means to negate the class, but you seem to have wanted it outside, so that it means beginning-of-string. You have $ inside the other character class, so you are interpolating $/ into the regex, and you seem to have wanted the $ in a place where it would mean end-of-string. I think you might have meant: 
  s/(^|\W)$_(\W|$)/$1$2/g

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But the thing I suggested with \b is simpler anyway.

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Mark Dominus
Perl Paraphernalia

In reply to Re: Defenetly a complicated perl recipie with 2 arrays, 1 scaler and some special matching by Dominus
in thread Defenetly a complicated perl recipie with 2 arrays, 1 scaler and some special matching by Anonymous Monk

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