On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:21:17AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:41:46PM -0400, Rick Delaney wrote:
> >
> > / ($alt) .* (?!\1) ($alt) /x;
>
> Fails with words: (foo, foobar, foobaz) and string "foofoobar".
So it does. The overlapping strings also cause problems for this
method:
$x <= grep { $string =~ m/$_/ } @words;
If $string is "foobar" and @words is qw(foo foobar) then this
results in two words found which I don't think the OP was looking for.
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Rick Delaney
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