[Bioperl-l] A perl regex query

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Spiros Denaxas wrote:
> Its not impossibe, you just have to use \b to denote the word boundaries :)
> 
> echo 'this-is-a_test-D-string-D' | perl -ne ' s/\b\-D\-\b//g ; print ;'
> 
> this-is-a_teststring-D
> 
> It only gets rid of -D- , all other occurrences of D and - remain intact.

I'm confused. The simpler:

echo 'this-is-a_test-D-string-D' | perl -ne ' s/-D-//g ; print ;'

gives the same answer. You'd have to something very strange for a regex 
on -D- to match D or - alone.