Hi, All -

I am trying to access the number of repitions matched by a quantifyer in a regex. For example, I would like the following to work: 
while( <> )
{
      print "$string was encountered $repitition times.\n" if /$string
++/g;
}

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My question is: Is there an elegant way (e. g. a special variable in Perl) to assign this value to $repitition? Or do I really need to include code in my regex counting up with each match?

Also: Can someone please let me know what the syntax for the <code> tags in this forum is ... when I include my code into those tags <code>text to print as code<\code> as suggested by the formatting help this never works. For the same reason I cannot get indentation to display either. Sorry!

Thanks in advance for your help!

Cheers -

Pat

In reply to How can I access the number of repititions in a regex? by pat_mc

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