$InfStr() is not the while condition here.

Update:
The reason first loop ends is because $str stores the necessary magic for m//g.
Second loop is infinite since InfStr() returns a fresh value each iteration. 

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e'(my $x = "ababa") =~ m/a/g; print Dump($x);'
SV = PVMG(0x7b65a0) at 0x786680
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADMY,SMG,POK,pPOK)
  IV = 0
  NV = 0
  PV = 0x778780 "ababa"\0
  CUR = 5
  LEN = 8
  MAGIC = 0x780ee0
    MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_mglob
    MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_regex_global(g)
    MG_LEN = 1

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Returning a reference from the sub can work around the problem: 

  my $x = "ababa";
  sub foo { \$x; }
  print join " ", @-, @+ while ${foo()} =~ m/a/g;

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I hope this explains things a little bit better.

In reply to Re^2: Loop Quandary by oiskuu
in thread Loop Quandary by joshpk105

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