$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e "\$_='qwerty';Dump(\$_);s/[rt]/Dump(\$_);/ge;print Dump(\$_)" SV = PV(0x801838) at 0x82fde0 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (POK,pPOK) PV = 0x201fe0 "qwerty"\0 CUR = 6 LEN = 8 SV = PVMG(0x823514) at 0x82fde0 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (SMG,POK,pPOK) IV = 0 NV = 0 PV = 0x201fe0 "qwerty"\0 CUR = 6 LEN = 8 MAGIC = 0x2018d0 MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_mglob MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_regex_global(g) MG_LEN = 3 SV = PVMG(0x823514) at 0x82fde0 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (SMG,POK,pPOK) IV = 0 NV = 0 PV = 0x201fe0 "qwerty"\0 CUR = 6 LEN = 8 MAGIC = 0x2018d0 MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_mglob MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_regex_global(g) MG_LEN = 4 SV = PVMG(0x823514) at 0x82fde0 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (SMG,POK,pPOK) IV = 0 NV = 0 PV = 0x2010d0 "qwey"\0 CUR = 4 LEN = 8 MAGIC = 0x2018d0 MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_mglob MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_regex_global(g) MG_LEN = -1