Hi all,

Here's a quick question for you. I have looked at perlre, perlretut, and done some web-searching, and I am still unclear what to do.

If I have the following code: 

$_ = 'TATATATATATA';

    while (/TATA/g) {
        print "Matched 'TATA' at position ", pos, "\n";
    }

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The output I get is: 
Matched 'TATA' at position 4
Matched 'TATA' at position 8
Matched 'TATA' at position 12

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So, obviously, the /g leaves me positioned at the end of each successive match. But, if I wanted to also match at positions 6 and 10, would I need to respecify pos to be the beginning of the previous match +1 character? Is there a better, more straightforward way to do this? Am I just missing something simple?

Thanks
Matt

In reply to position after global matches? by mdunnbass

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