On Jun 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Could someone please explain this to me clearly so I
>can actually understand word boundaries?
I've tried to do this in Chapter 3, "Extending and Controlling", of my
upcoming book, "Regular Expressions in Perl". If you read it, it might
help shed some light on
> "You" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
You> on page 83 of Learning Perl, they give a regex
You> example:
You> /abc\bdef/;
You> #never matches (impossibe for a boundary there)
You> Could someone please explain this to me clearly so I
You> can actually understand word boundaries?
First
At 12:14 PM 6/3/2001 -0400, Eduard Grinvald wrote:
>The equivalent of specifying a word boundary would be roughly the following
>regex:
>/[^a-zA-Z0-9-_][a-zA-Z0-9-_]+[^a-zA-Z0-9-_]/
>Something that's not in a word, followed by something in a word, followed by
>something not in a word.
Sorry, this
-Z0-9-_]+[^a-zA-Z0-9-_]/
Something that's not in a word, followed by something in a word, followed by
something not in a word.
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Subject: don't understand wor
on page 83 of Learning Perl, they give a regex
example:
/abc\bdef/;
#never matches (impossibe for a boundary there)
Could someone please explain this to me clearly so I
can actually understand word boundaries?
thanks...
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