Hello monks

I use the following to discard stopwords, which are saved in an array, from my process

my $word="of";
my @stopwords= ("a","the","of");
if (grep /$word/i, @stopwords) {
   print "Stopword $word discarded\n";
}
else{
   print "$word is not a stop word\n";
}

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This works fine if my $word has only one word, it just matches everywhere. It becomes complicated if $word is made out of more words, as I don't want to consider $word a stopword according to the position of the match. What I need to do is to exactily control the grep match, which means:

the position of the match, where the stopword is found in $word, for example at the beginning or at the end of $word. With $word="of the blue" match is true, $word="the blue of" match is true, $word="out of blue" match is no true

No idea where to start. I ould be glad if someone could give me some hint to work on.

In reply to grep match variable position by Anonymous Monk

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