in reply to Lookbehind and backreferences
in thread Perl regular expression for amino acid sequence

That is neat. And very good to know. Thanks.

The need for backrefs in a look-behind doesn't crop up that often, but when it does, I've found it almost impossible to work around--till now.

That one definitely goes into my bag of "tricks techniques worth knowing"!

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