Do you mean that you only want the first match, or that you only want the word "chen" when it's not preceeded or followed by other characters? You can use \b (word boundary) to make sure you got the whole word.
$string =~ /\b(chen)\b/g; -----Original Message----- From: chen li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:54 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: new for regular expression in Perl Hi all, Here is my problem: my $string="chen schen"; I want to use regular expression to find the exact match in the string. So when I want to match "chen" I expect "chen" only. But use the following line I get both "chen" and "schen" at the same time. $string=~/chen/g; How do I get what I expect? Thanks, Li __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com -- 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>
