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Look behind used to only work with fixed length patterns. IIRC.

That's most likely also related to the "experimental" status of my code.

> But surprisingly, Corion's solution works flawlessly

Doesn't surprise me that's a very old feature, could be even Perl4.

The idea of Pos and related stuff is very sed/awk-ish, and text processing was one of the main objectives of Perl4.

Cheers Rolf
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