print $1 if 'abcfoobc' =~ /(.*)foo\1/; # works
print $1 if 'abcfoobc' =~ /(.*).{3}\1/; # does work, $1 empty
print $1 if 'abcfoobc' =~ /(.+)foo\1/; # works as well

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print $1 if 'abcfoobc' =~ /(.*)\w*\1/; # does work

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perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web