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in thread Pattern matching

what is the significance of "?<=" in your code?

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Re^3: Pattern matching
by reneeb (Chaplain) on Jan 05, 2005 at 13:52 UTC
    look at perldoc perlre:

    "(?<=pattern)"<br /> A zero-width positive look-behind assertion. For example, "/(?<=\t)\w+/" matches a word that follows a tab, without including the tab in $&. Works only for fixed-width look-behind.