c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "use Data::Dump qw(dd); ;; my $seq = 'AATGGTTTCTCCCATCTCTCCATCGGCATAAAAATACAGAATGATCTAA'; ;; my $subseq = qr{ ATG \w* (?: TAG | TAA | TGA) }xms; ;; my @all = find_all($seq, $subseq); dd \@all; ;; ;; sub find_all { my ($seq, $regex) = @_; ;; local our @hits; use re 'eval'; $seq =~ m{ ($regex) (?{ push @hits, [ $^N, $-[1] ] }) (?!) }xmsg; ;; return @hits; } " [ ["ATGGTTTCTCCCATCTCTCCATCGGCATAAAAATACAGAATGATCTAA", 1], ["ATGGTTTCTCCCATCTCTCCATCGGCATAAAAATACAGAATGA", 1], ["ATGGTTTCTCCCATCTCTCCATCGGCATAA", 1], ["ATGATCTAA", 40], ]