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Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, i am working on my regexes, in this case backreferences. I found this code :

/\b(\w\w\w)\s\g1\b/;/

This code should find all three letter-doubles. Unfortunately i can't bring it to work, because there is little further explanation. i was hoping someone could give some useful comments about this line of code, maybe give a short example. I have added some code that i wrote , which finds all three-letter words and reports how many times each word occurs.Thanks

$term = 'Dit is het eerste het is niet het laatste Dit'; @woorden = split / /, $term; @let = grep (length($_)=3,@woorden); foreach(@let){ $aantal = $term =~ s/$_//g; if($aantal==0){next;} print "$_:"."$aantal\n"; };