Re^2: Bizarreness in ?PATTERN? and g

So, hmm. It seems ?? only acts differently if it's inside a loop. The perlop docs mention reset, and reset is only really useful for loops, so perhaps ?? is too? Hopefully someone who knows will come clear this up.

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Re^3: Bizarreness in ?PATTERN? and g by ysth (Canon) on Jun 04, 2004 at 07:15 UTC
Each occurence of ?? in code will match only once beteen resets. If you have more than one ??, each one can match once.	[reply]
Re^3: Bizarreness in ?PATTERN? and g by beth (Scribe) on Jun 04, 2004 at 18:20 UTC
japhy took a look at this but I guess he didn't post about it yet. Basically, loops and repeated statements are not interchangeable - they're compiled differently. He suggested running the following two tests, which are quite enlightening: `perl -MO=Terse -e '/x/; /x/;' perl -MO=Terse -e '/x/ for 1, 2'` [download] -- eval pack("H*", "7072696e74207061636b2822482a222c202236613631373036382229"); # japh or forkbomb? You decide!	[reply] [d/l]