Jeez! You do like to do things the hard way. Get yourself a REPL. 

c:\test>p1
[0] Perl> $a = 'abcdeee';;
[0] Perl> $a =~ /(..)/ and print $1;;
ab
[0] Perl> $a =~ /(.)\1/ and print $1;;
e
[0] Perl> $a =~ /((.)\1)/ and print $2;;
[0] Perl> $a =~ /((.)\1)/ and print $1;;
[0] Perl> $a =~ /(.)(\1+)/ and print "$1$2";;
eee
[0] Perl> $a = 'abcdeeef';;
[0] Perl> $a =~ /(.)(\1+)/ and print "$1$2";;
eee
[0] Perl> $a = 'abbb;eeef';;
[0] Perl> $a =~ /(.)(\1+)/ and print "$1$2";;
bbb

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Most of that just requires a cursor up and a couple of characters edits.

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In reply to Re: Using Test::More to make sense of documentation by BrowserUk
in thread Using Test::More to make sense of documentation by ELISHEVA

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