Re: [MacPerl] Troubles while using m/\G/ g...

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

G_L_H_Kok@fbw.vu.nl writes:
>I wanted to know more about regexp's in combination with /g, and
>tried the following example from an 5.004 perlop page;
># using m//g with \G
>$_ = "ppooqppq";
>while ($i++ < 2) {
>    print "1: '";
>    print $1 while /(o)/g; print "', pos=", pos, "\n";

You're looping *until* the match fails, and after a failed match, pos will
return nothing.

Matthias

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