I tried for a while, but I couldn't coax Perl into playing nice with this one :)

It looks like Perl 5.005_03 simply ignores the \G anchor when a '?' modifier is present. It also ignores \G if there's a {0,1} modifier, but oddly enough, not in the cases of '*' or '{0,2}'. Though not quite accurate, perhaps one of these is a suitable substitute.

Another option is to expand the '?' modifier into its two possibilities like so: 

    m/\G(\\\$\w+|\$\w+)/gc

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You can also dispense with the \G modifier altogether, and just slurp away the lexed tokens, using s/TOKEN// for matching, though this method is somewhat less efficient. 
   MeowChow                                   
               s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print

In reply to Re: (bbfu)(regex engine bug)Re: Re: RE prollem: \G, \\? ... by MeowChow
in thread RE prollem: \G, \\? and disappearing data by bbfu

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