you still haven't looked at the code I posted. With pos==0 it doesn't match, but there are two different kind of undefined pos (one after the variable is initialized, and one after the first match) which is evidently a bug!

  DB<168> $str="abcd"
 
  DB<169> print pos($str),":",scalar ($str=~/(.)\G/g),":",$1
:1:
  DB<170> print pos($str),":",scalar ($str=~/(.)\G/g),":",$1
0::
  DB<171> print pos($str),":",scalar ($str=~/(.)\G/g),":",$1
:1:
  DB<172> print pos($str),":",scalar ($str=~/(.)\G/g),":",$1
:1:
  DB<173> print pos($str),":",scalar ($str=~/(.)\G/g),":",$1
:1:
  DB<174> pos($str)=0
 
  DB<175> print pos($str),":",scalar ($str=~/(.)\G/g),":",$1
0::
  DB<176> print pos($str),":",scalar ($str=~/(.)\G/g),":",$1
:1:
  DB<177> print pos($str),":",scalar ($str=~/(.)\G/g),":",$1
:1:
  DB<178> print pos($str),":",scalar ($str=~/(.)\G/g),":",$1
:1:
  DB<179> pos($str)=undef
 
  DB<180> print pos($str),":",scalar ($str=~/(.)\G/g),":",$1
:1:
  DB<181> print pos($str),":",scalar ($str=~/(.)\G/g),":",$1
:1:
  DB<182> print pos($str),":",scalar ($str=~/(.)\G/g),":",$1
:1:

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Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re^8: [bugs?] perldoc perlre, \G and pos() by LanX
in thread [bugs?] perldoc perlre, \G and pos() by LanX

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