I gave a talk about this amongst other things at YAPC::Europe::2004. This question started at slide 20.
I would want "abcdef" =~ m/..*..*./g to return 20 = 6 choose 3 matches.

Hmmm... that's not quite the same thing I was talking about. How is Perl to know that .* is different from . ?

As far as my solution (actually largely due to abigail) is concerned /..*..*../ is simply /.{4,}/ and all matches thereof in "abcdef" would be 6..

Update: changed /.*/ to /.{4,}/ and made resulting changes.

In reply to Re: Regexes: finding ALL matches (including overlap) by nobull
in thread Regexes: finding ALL matches (including overlap) by kaif

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