Regexp multiple match

jeteve has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all. Lets say I have a pattern $p and a string $s, I like to have something like that:

my @matches = ( $s =~ /($p)/ ) ;
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With @mathes containing all the occurence of $p in $s . I tried almost all possible modifier and didn't managed to do it. Thx for help !

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Re: Regexp multiple match by thinker (Parson) on Apr 29, 2005 at 08:24 UTC
Hi jeteve, What you want is the /g modifier, as this, highly contrived, example will show `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings FATAL => "all"; my $s = "batcatbetnetbitfit"; my $p = "b.t"; my @matches = $s =~ /$p/g; print "@matches\n"; __END__ returns bat bet bit` [download] cheers thinker	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Regexp multiple match by blazar (Canon) on Apr 29, 2005 at 08:19 UTC
`/g`	[reply] [d/l]