On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote:

> Thanks
> \b .. \b worked fine
> 
> How do I find what charaters come under \b word boundary
> perldoc perlre  just says \b word boundary

Scroll down a few lines from where you read this, you
have the info you are looking for.

> 
> is \b equivalent to  [^\w\_\-\.]

No, \b is a zero width assertion, it does not contain anything.
You can say that it matches an imaginary but existing spot between 
a \w and a \W in any order, if that makes any sense :-)  


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