Hi everyone! i haven't used Perl in a couple of years so there's probably a really obvious answer to this that i'm missing...

what i'm trying to do is match occurances like 'test zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz test' in a sample string and print them out. the first match prints, but none others - any clues as to why?

(oh i'm running this on windows xp, using activestate perl if that helps)
thanks! 

#!perl 

my $text = "test1 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz test2 test3 test4 test5 zzzzzzzzzzzz
+zzz test6 test7 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz test8 test9 test10";

# search for a-z0-9_ followed by whitespace then zzzzzzzzz then whites
+pace then a-z0-9_

if ( $text =~ /([a-zA-Z0-9]+\s+[z]{15}\s+[a-z0-9]+)/ ) 
{
    print "string \$1: " . $1 . "!\n";
    print "string \$2: " . $2 . "!\n";
}
else
{
    print "string not found...!\n";
}

print "text is " . $text . "\n";

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output is
C:\perlcode>perl regex.pl

string $1: test1 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz test2!

string $2: !

text is : test1 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz test2 test3 test4 test5 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz test6 test7 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz test8 test9 test10

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