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I know all about using that module but I want to do it myself since I'll get experience using regexes in this way. It's not much of a script that will ever do anything, it's just for playing and testing. So if it doesn't always match id the page changes, it doesn't affect anything. I just want to learn how to match every occurence into an array.

Thanks.

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Re^3: newbie to regex: all matches
by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 10, 2006 at 01:03 UTC 
    use warnings;
use strict;

my $str = do {local $/; <DATA>};
my @matches = $str =~ /(\w+):(.*)/g;

print "@matches\n";

__DATA__
1: one
2: two
3: three

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    1  one 2  two 3  three

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