in reply to Re: Re: Re: Requiring backtracking a certain number of times
in thread Requiring backtracking a certain number of times

I went down this same track, and came up with a version that doesn't munge $_:

s/(\d)/$s+=$1,$1/ge;
Although I was hampered by the fact that this doesn't work in psh for some reason.

Alan

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Re4: Requiring backtracking a certain number of times
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Apr 04, 2002 at 19:06 UTC
    After playing, I came up with:
    @a=/.(?{$s+=$&})/g;
    However, I have to have the @a=. If you run it without that, it only deals with the first number. *blinkblink* That's just so counter-intuitive.

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