in reply to Re^7: regex at word boundary
in thread regex at word boundary

I'll get what you get, I strongly suspect, when I'm not on a v5.6.1 Perl implementation. So your stuff does work with sufficiently current Perl.

I'll rerun the speed comparison when I'm home and have access to v5.8

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