Hi, olus -

Thanks for your quick answers on both accounts.

Ad 1) I understand the solution you propose. It is certainly an option to include all matches into a list and return the size of the list. The downside of this approach is that in more complex regular expressions I need separate lists and regexes for every quantifier I want to access. 
while ( <> )
{
print "$string_1 matched ", scalar @list_1, "times." if @list_1 = $_~ 
+/regex_1/g;
print "$string_2 matched ", scalar @list_2, "times." if @list_2 = $_=~
+ /regex_1/g;
}

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Clearly, this could get messy ... are there any alternatives to this?

Ad 2) Good stuff ... the code tags now work! How do I indent?

Thanks again!

Cheers -

Pat

In reply to Re^2: How can I access the number of repititions in a regex? by pat_mc
in thread How can I access the number of repititions in a regex? by pat_mc

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