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There is a difference. Consider the following: 

son-and-law
I can't promise anything (and never will).
People should carpool--and in some cases they do--since it saves gas.

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m/^and$/ will miss the 'and' in these cases, even though it is there. I don't know whether the OP wants that or not, as he didn't really specify edge cases. If such edge cases should be disallowed, my code would need a minor modification so as to not attempt to print anything if @locations is empty.


Dave

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Re^4: tracking words in lines
by sulfericacid (Deacon) on Nov 12, 2004 at 19:46 UTC
    Ahh, okay. I had a feeling it would matching something like "and!" or "and?" where mine would fail miserably.

    Thanks.



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