less efficient, less maintainable, with a warning, and with a pitfall: what if a word other than the word to be deleted is composed entirely of letters in the targeted word. e.g.: 

perl -wMstrict -e "my $text = qq(start\nrats\n);
$text = join($1, grep(/[^start]/, split(/(\n)/, $text)));
print qq(o/p: \n);  print qq({$text})"
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at -e line 1.
o/p:
{

}

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wouldn't it at least be better to say  grep($_ ne 'start', ... ) (although it still leaves the "Use of uninitialized value ..." problem, which i don't quite understand)?

In reply to Re^2: end of line anchor in regex by Anonymous Monk
in thread end of line anchor in regex by redss

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