in reply to Re^2: How to match more than 32766 times in regex?
in thread How to match more than 32766 times in regex?

No need to go to those lengths:


$s = '0123456789' x 100000;;

( $m ) = $s =~ m[((?:(?:0123456789){32000}){3})];;

print length $m;;
960000

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But for any given application there's almost certainly a better way of tackling the problem.

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