in reply to Defenetly a complicated perl recipie with 2 arrays, 1 scaler and some special matching

Use 
    $topic =~ s/\b$_\b//g;

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and it will not turn class into cl.

The \b's tell Perl you only want the pattern to match at a 'word boundary'.

Hope this helps.

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Re: Re: Defenetly a complicated perl recipie with 2 arrays, 1 scaler and some special matching
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 15, 2001 at 06:35 UTC
    after that port, i noticed some of my words were getting drop kicked. I'll put spaces in it so you can see the word: < c e n s o r e d > thats ALL over the submitted question how much does that change?
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      well, i cant type it out at all, its the word censored with pointy brackets on both sides
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