Hi Monks,

I'm practicing on regular expressions. I've tried using the /g switch as in the following piece of code:

$string = "<name=\"foo\"><anystring 1 /></name><name=\"bar\"><anystrin
+g 2 /></name>";

while ($string =~ m/<name=\"(.*)\">(.*)<\/name>/g)
    { print "$1, $2\n"; }

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The idea was to get two lines like:

foo, <anystring 1 />

bar, <anystring 2 />

Instead I get a single line like:

foo"><anystring 1 /></name><name="bar, <anystring 2 />

Can anybody explain me why, and how can I modify the code in order to get what I want?

Thanks

In reply to Can't understand why /g does not work as I expect by gnieddu

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