in reply to index regex

use Modern::Perl;

my $string = 'Search, find and tell me! where, oh where are those funn
+y characters???';

my @positions;
push @positions, [$1, pos($string)] while ($string =~ m/([-\s,.!?;])/g
+);
}

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@positions is an AoA: each element contains the character found and its position.

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