Re^2: What does 'global' (/g) do in a regexp in this particular case?

> As a workaround

ehm, ok! But what for???

Can't see any benefit of using /g here.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

Update

OK at least in a loop pos works on literals...

  DB<139> print scalar "a a" =~ /a/g for 1..10   
1111111    # third iteration is undef than restart from beginning     

  DB<140> print scalar "a a" =~ /a/ for 1..10
1111111111 # infinite restart
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