Re^2: broken regex

sorry about the bad formatting, I'll try again

  foreach (@words) {
    $line =~ s/(%\d)$_(%\d)//g;
    print "$line\n";
    }

It was my understanding that (%\d) detected a word boundary (space, begining of line, end of line)

Comment on Re^2: broken regex

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Re^3: broken regex by hgolden (Pilgrim) on Sep 15, 2006 at 12:56 UTC
That's why we're here. `\b` is the word boundary metacharacter. And thanks for the code tags! :) Hays	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: broken regex by elwood (Initiate) on Sep 15, 2006 at 12:58 UTC
doh! of course! something about not seeing the forest for the trees :-) thanks	[reply]
Re^3: broken regex by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 15, 2006 at 15:16 UTC
sorry about the bad formatting, I'll try again On PerlMonks, put `<c>`..`</c>` tags around your code. It's like `<pre>`..`</pre>`, but it handles escaping special characters for your (such as `&`, `<`, `>`, `[` and `]`). It also wraps long lines while offering a link to download the unwrapped version.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: broken regex by jdtoronto (Prior) on Sep 16, 2006 at 16:47 UTC
Whereas using `<pre></pre>` can completely foul things up with long lines! Welcome to the monastery, I hope you find the place as useful as I have over the years. jdtoronto	[reply] [d/l]


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