Your DB counters are in the 30s (and skip backwards). My guess is it's something in the steps you are not showing us. Here's my SSCCE:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Test::More tests => 2;

my @matches;
$_ = '1223w3433.45+34';

@matches = (/\d\D*/g);
is $matches[0], 1, 'First time';
@matches = (/\d\D*/g);
is $matches[0], 1, 'Second time';
[download]

Which passes, as you would expect.