Re: Please help with Regexp::Common

[LanX]

> However, this does NOT work as I would expect:

Really? Well swear words having word boundaries is what I expect.

> It seems like the profanity patterns have start of word / end of word anchors built into the patterns,

well it seems so, why don't you just dump the regex to be sure?

Personally I wouldn't want words like Essex to be flagged. (Or Dickens or zaddick)

> don't work if the word is embedded inside another string? Is there any way to control this behavior? 

After browsing thru the code ...

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ABIGAIL/Regexp-Common-2016060801/lib/Regexp/Common/profanity.pm

I saw this

 
pattern name => [qw (profanity)], create => '(?:\b(?k:' . $profanity .
+ ')\b)', ;

So I doubt there is any possible flag to disable the hard coded \b meta character.

But if you really need this feature you could just copy the code into your own subclass and change the pattern to your needs.