Hello,

just a quick question. Short scan over a few regexp tutorials didn't lead me to an answer.

$a="aaaa";
@a=$a=~m/aa/g;
print join ( "-", @a );

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outputs: 
aa-aa

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But with another pov one could find 3 occurences of 'aa' in 'aaaa' but I think this is a question of how matching is defined in perl.

Is there a way to manipulate the regexp above to match 3 times in the given string or do I have to write my own sub for this task?

Any suggestion to do this the "perl way"?



Thanks!

PS: A friend came up with the following, non-experimental :) suggestion

$regexp="a{2}";
$a="aaaa";
@a=$a=~m/(?=($regexp))./g;
print join ( "-", @a );

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Greetings

In reply to multiple matches with regexp by almaric

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