in reply to multiple matches with regexp

You can do this by doing a global match and resetting pos on each iteration to the position after the match, like this:

$_ = "aaaaa";
while (/aa/g) {
    print "Match at $-[0]\n";
    pos = $-[0] + 1;
}

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