This is a little weird. Can somebody explain this. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$_ = "The quick\n\nbrown fox\njumped.";

print "-------------\n";
foreach (/(.*)$/gm){
  print "[$_]\n";
}

print "-------------\n";
foreach (/^(.*)/gm){
  print "[$_]\n";
}

print "-------------\n";
foreach (/^(.*)$/gm){
  print "[$_]\n";
}

print "-------------\n";

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Produces the following 
-------------
[The quick]
[]
[]
[brown fox]
[]
[jumped.]
[]
-------------
[The quick]
[]
[brown fox]
[jumped.]
-------------
[The quick]
[]
[brown fox]
[jumped.]
-------------

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Even though I found a solution to the problem, I still don't have an explanation for it. Does anybody know what is going on in the engine?

I've added use re qw(debug); to the script and looked and in the first example it says it matched 0 of 32767 times when the position is still on character 9. On the second set, this doesn't happen. How is this matching twice on the first time. Also I tried this 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$_ = "The quick\n\nbrown fox\njumped.";

print "-------------\n";
foreach (/(?:^|\G)(.*)/gm){
  print "[$_]\n";
}

print "-------------\n";

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And look what it did 
-------------
[The quick]
[]
[]
[brown fox]
[]
[jumped.]
[]
-------------

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Hmmmmmmm.

In reply to Re: Bother (Re: Re: Split and empty strings) by Rhandom
in thread Split and empty strings by andye

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