Re^2: Searching for a word that may only exist in part

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For:

my $sequence = "111...1111...11";
my $find = "11111";
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Prints:

found? 1111
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whereas the OP says "if I do not find the whole word within a sequence and start truncating the word, then it can only match at either end of a sequence and not within".

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Re^3: Searching for a word that may only exist in part by mreece (Friar) on Oct 19, 2006 at 02:40 UTC
oh, i misunderstood, thinking only at the beginning or end of the 'find' sequence (1111 is the beginning (..and end..) of 11111). the regexes are fixable (`/(^$tail\|$tail$)/` and same for `$head`?) easily enough.. i just wanted an excuse to use chop ;-)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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