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Are you aware of the runtime drawbacks that $& (and his brethren $' and $`) impose?
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Re^3: nested reg ex over multiple lines
by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Jun 20, 2005 at 14:10 UTC
    Yeah, but to be honest, I had kind of forgotten about them when I posted the above. I was just all into the inch along with negative lookahead thing.

    Basically, the $& construct is slow, and might not be supported into the future. (Right?) What's the "right" way to do this again?

    UPDATE: Changed above code to use $1 instead.

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      ... 
      while ($content =~m/(CALCON((?!CALCON).)*)/smg){
    my $entire_match = $1;

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      ...


      holli, /regexed monk/
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