Re: Regular Expression match too much

m/\b$criteria\b/ - require a word break at each end of the text. Allows matches on 'SM and other stuff' or 'SM NP', but not on 'SMNP'.

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Re^2: Regular Expression match too much by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:08 UTC
Nice tip, but that should be `m/\b(?:$criteria)\b/`. `print('BOTTOM' =~ m/\b$criteria\b/ ?1:0, "\n"); # 1 print('BOTTOM' =~ m/\b(?:$criteria)\b/ ?1:0, "\n"); # 0` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Regular Expression match too much by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:11 UTC
Hmm, sneeky. I come here to learn, I learned :). Thankyou. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]