/edi$/i I think?

On 05/17, John Joseph Trammell rearranged the electrons to read:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:25:53PM -0000, Stout, Joel R wrote:
> > if (/edi\b/i) { # thinking I would match file names 1, 2, and 4.  Instead I
> > matched on all.  Wasn't \b supposed to help me out here?  Or does Perl
> > consider "." in this case a word boundary?  Any help much appreciated.
> 
> \b matches any transition from \w to \W or vice versa.  \w is any
> alphanumeric character plus "_", usually something like [A-Za-z0-9_],
> and \W is its complement.  How about using pattern "/edi$/" ?
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