#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # 864348 $_='qwerty erk'; my $pos; my $foo = $_ =~ s/r/ $pos=pos(). "\n"; print pos(); print "\n"; ++( pos() ); print "\t" . pos() . "\n"; print($pos . "\n")/gex; print "Now, outside the regex, $pos"; #### 3 4 3 8 9 8 Now, outside the regex, 8