Re: strange behaviour: continue with \G and /gc and look forward

regex will not match twice at the same position, it will advance by one on the second attempt.

It's somewhere in the docs, but I can't find it just now.

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Re^2: strange behaviour: continue with \G and /gc and look forward by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 14, 2019 at 17:33 UTC
It can match at the same position twice. `say "[$-[0], $+[0])" while "aaaaa" =~ /a*?/g;` [download] `[0, 0) [0, 1) [1, 1) [1, 2) [2, 2) [2, 3) [3, 3) [3, 4) [4, 4) [4, 5) [5, 5)` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: strange behaviour: continue with \G and /gc and look forward by tybalt89 (Monsignor) on Dec 14, 2019 at 17:52 UTC
I should have said "regex will not ZERO LENGTH match twice at the same position".	[reply]