good $localtime fellow monks,

I am tearing my hair out over a small oddity. Why will this work: 

perl -nle "my (@c) = /\:(\w+)\:/g; print join '.', @c"
 input> out:caputure1:out:capture2:out
output> caputure1.capture2

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But this behaves so differently

perl -nle "my (@c) = s/\:(\w+)\:/X/g; print join '.', @c"
 input> out:caputure1:out:capture2:out
output> 2

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I am trying to extract comments from a file I have in a buffer read in with local $/;. The comments are marked by a ; and continue to the end of the line. For various reasons I want the file as a sinlge line and want to extract the comments. The comments will be added back in later so I substiture them for a marker. I realise I could break the file into lines and put it back together again later but I would love to be able to do it in one line

Cheers,
R.

Pereant, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt!

In reply to s///g and capturing all matches by Random_Walk

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