Re: Perl5 and Alternate strange behavior

In message <[email protected]>, "Jero
me Jacobsen" writes:
>Is there a way ORO to do this?  Or is there a way to specify this in the
>pattern itself?

The normal way to do this in Perl is to use ^ and $ to denote the start
and end of the match (i.e., you "specify this in the pattern itself"):
  $foo =~ /^(?:|STUFF|JUNK)$/
so I believe what you want is:
  Pattern pattern = compiler.compile("^(?:|STUFF|JUNK)$");

daniel