Wise Monks,

I'm having some trouble with a RegEx that matches within a <coordinates> (KML) tag... 

$kmlfile = "<coordinates>1.0001,2.0002,0 3.0003,4.0004,0 ...</coordina
+tes>";

if ($kmlfile =~ m{<coordinates>(.*)</coordinates>}g)
     {
     $coordinates = $1;
     while ($coordinates =~ m/\G(\d*\.\d*,\d*\.\d*),0*/s*/gs)
          {
          push @coords, $1;
          }
     }

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The only problem with this is that @coords only gets the first pair (1.0001,2.0002).

How do I populate each element with pairs as shown below? I thought that the \G operator would hold the previous search's last position and start from there on the next iteration to fill the array. 

$coords[0] = 1.0001,2.0002;
$coords[1] = 3.0003,4.0004;
...

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Your insight is most appreciated.

In reply to \G inline RegEx operator by AF_One

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