in reply to Odd regex results with g switch

m//g in a scalar context maintains a pos value. See perldoc -tf pos and perldoc perlre for details. Your results are entirely as expected to me.

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Re^2: Odd regex results with g switch
by JamesNC (Chaplain) on Oct 30, 2005 at 13:12 UTC
    thank you
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