don't understand word boundary

[patroclus_1]

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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