Re^3: Empty pattern in regex

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// always matches, always returns TRUE, but it never changes $&.

That is not correct, in either aspect:

% perl -wle '"a" =~ /a/; "b" =~ // or print "did not match, did not re
+turn TRUE"'
did not match, did not return TRUE
% perl -wle '"a" =~ /.*/; q{$& changed} =~ // and print $&'
$& changed
%
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Re^4: Empty pattern in regex by perlboy_emeritus (Scribe) on Oct 19, 2023 at 20:44 UTC
I concede, I give up and I surrender. Too confusing, why I get the result I do and you get the results you do. I'll sit this one out and just study the results y'all get. :-)	[reply]

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