Dear Monks

I have tried to get this to work, I am trying to extract the pieces from a string that have the pattern [something]. I am trying to write a mail merge program and another mail merge program :) has this syntax

Ideally I thought that the $1....$n held the pieces that the regex found that match. But I am only getting the first match ( since I turned off greedy matching ) and the others are not being found.

Any ideas on what I am missing do I need to copy the string find the match delete it from the string and find again until the regex returns false?

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

my $a = "this is a test [[1]] [[ a ]] [[ abd ]] [[\%object,key]]";



$a =~ m/(\[\[.*?\]\])/;

print "$_, $1 , $2 , $3 , $4 , $+ \n";

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What I would like out is:<\p> 

"1, [[1]] , [[ a ]] , [[ abd ]] , [[\%object,key]] , 4 \n";

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In reply to Regular Expression Pieces by Angel

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