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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

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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.

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