in reply to A small comma parsing problem...

Use \b to match on word boundaries.

next unless $language =~ /\b$search\b/;
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Re^2: A small comma parsing problem...
by chinamox (Scribe) on Oct 03, 2006 at 16:53 UTC
    Thanks! Elegant and effective ...