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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: What's a Word Boundary?
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.183337.24976@holos0.uucp>
Date: 26 Feb 91 18:33:37 GMT
Sender: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
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Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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The manual speaks of, but does not define, a "word boundary" in
regular expressions.  I presume that a word is \w+ and that a word
boundary will match at ^ and $ and at the edges of, but not
within, \w+ .

I'm trying to match 6 digit strings, but I don't want to match a
six digit string that is part of a larger alphanumeric string.
The following seems to work.  Is it in fact what I want?
	/\b\d{6}\b/
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