Re^2: Re-use of a global match

That statement needs to be qualified. It is far from always true. The /g modifier is part of Perl for a reason and there are many things one can do with it that are much more difficult without it.

$foo = (join ', ', 'abacadaeafagahaiaj' =~ m/a/g );
print $foo . "\n";
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Re^3: Re-use of a global match by mrpeabody (Friar) on Aug 02, 2007 at 05:00 UTC
/g can be useful. But if you just want to know if something matches (which for me is most of the time), you don't need it. The cases where m///g is useful are where: you need to save the position of the last match, or you're counting or saving the matches for later use (assigning the result of m/// to a variable) In practice, I find myself using /g only in substitutions.	[reply]