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and you need capturing () around the pattern itself... *smacks self in face*

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Re:^3: Regex not behaving as expected
by diotalevi (Canon) on Feb 01, 2003 at 16:47 UTC

    Not necessarily. If there are no capture groups then the list context result behaves as if there is an implicit group around the entire regex.

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      Iff there is a /g modifier on it.
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