perl question

[Parker Thompson]

Try this:

$input =~ /\blin\b/;

This will match lin but not linux or gamblin. The \b char requires that
there be a word boundary for the reg exp to be true.

Check out the section on regular expressions in Programming Perl, it's
straight-up dope-fly.

Parker.
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Greg Daly wrote:

:hey all,
:not explicitly linux, but close. i'm trying to match occurences of a
:string in perl. problem is, i only want occurences of that string
:specifically to ring a true. example, say i have this list:
:
:linux
:linus
:
:$input=~/lin/  will give me a TRUE, even though I only want it to ring
:true IFF there exists an entry named 'lin'. 
:
:see what i mean? any suggestions? is there a switch i don't know about?
:thanks,
:-greg
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