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in reply to Regex word options

agree with ww. The '||' operator may be better suited here than the word boundary '\b'. Also, what are you trying with the '?' non-greedy quantifier? Are you looking for lines starting with these words? Perhaps I'm missing something, but you would probably benefit more from providing some input data.

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Re^2: Regex word options
by falpizar91 (Initiate) on Nov 01, 2012 at 04:16 UTC

    why not try:

    
if( $inputStr =~ /^(Arranged\,|Transcribe\,)/ ){
   ### do your stuff
}

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