I want to know the position of a character the regular expression matches last time. For ex: 
$_ = "abcdmefg";
$_ = /m/;
print "$&\t$`\t$'\n";

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It prints:     m   abcd   efg

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The above printed matched, prematch and after match. But I like to know the position of the charactr 'm' in the string. Then I used while loop like this: 
$_ = "abcdmefg";
while(m/m/g)
{
   print "matched 'm' at ",pos,"\n";
}

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Then it prints: matched 'm' at 5. Is there anyway to print the position without while loop? I treid to print using pos in the first example, but does not work. Can you pl. help me? Thanks Ashok

In reply to position of the last match in RE by Anonymous Monk

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