Hmm, Why is it behaving differently?! Ahh, I think my problem concerns my use of PREMATCH, not the matching itself.

PREMATCH is giving me the whole beginning of the string to the next match, not the part between the last search result and the next. 

use 5.10.1;
use utf8;

my $simples = qr{\*\*|//};
my $ps= qr/
    (?<simple>$simples)(?<body>.*?)\k<simple>
    /x;
my @results;
my $line= q[You can make things **bold** or //italic// or **//both//**
+ or //**both**//.];
say "Original: [$line]";
while ($line =~ /$ps/pgc) {
    say "pos is " . pos($line);
    say "PREMATCH: (${^PREMATCH})"  unless length(${^PREMATCH}) == 0;
    say "SIMPLE: ($+{simple}) ($+{body})";
    }

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I guess to find the stuff between matches as well as the matches, I need to put it explicitly within a capture too. A lazy match of anything first.

Thanks.

In reply to Re^2: Regex: continue from previous match by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Regex: continue from previous match by John M. Dlugosz

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