Monks, this is my first question. I'm using the /gx flag to do global extended regex comments, with #comments and white space. I want to fetch all matches into @match. My regex has a lookahead, and it doesn't work with the x flag. Without the lookahead, it works. Specifically, I want to get all matches into an array, and loop through them. 
my @matches = ($_ =~ m/(<p class=g>.*?<a href=https?:\/\/)([^<]*?>)(.*
+?(?=<p class=g>))/g); #works.

#my @matches = ($_ =~ m/(<p class=g>.*?<a href=https?:\/\/)([^<]*?>)(.
+*?(?=<p class=g>))/gx); #doesn't work. 

my @matches = ($_ =~ m/(<p class=g>.*?<a href=https?:\/\/)([^<]*?>)(.*
+?<p class=g>)/g); #got rid of lookahead.  works.

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I know the lookahead probably isn't strictly necessary here, but regardless, what's the deal? How do I have comments and lookaheads at the same time? Thanks!

In reply to Regex Extended Comments with lookahead? by Anonymous Monk

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