If I'm reading this correctly, you are trying to match a word at the end of a string. If that's the case then move the word boundary to the end of your match.
print $& ."\n" if (/eat\b/); print $& ."\n" if (/gre\b/); Reading from the "Learning Perl 3rd" Edition on page 108: "The \b anchor matches at the start or end of a group of \w characters". \b at the beginning of the word will match only the beginning and no ending characters. If you are looking for more then perhaps a nonword-boundary anchor is what you are looking for? >From Page 109 it reads: "The nonword-boundary anchor is \B; it matches at any point where \b would not match. /\bsearch\B/ will match searches but not researching". Hope this helps. > friends, > ************************ > script : > > $_='as great as perl'; > print $& ."\n" if (/\beat/); > print $& ."\n" if (/\bgre/); > > output : > gre > *********************** > Why 'boundary' assertion does not match in end of word , but only the start of > word? > > thanks, > Jay > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
