Re^3: How can I access the number of repititions in a regex?

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in thread How can I access the number of repititions in a regex?

There is such possibility, but using 'highly experimental' :) code:

$_='this is some text(55). this is another text. there are 2 texts.';
@re=/text(?{$cnt1++})|\d+(?{$cnt2++})/g;
print "'text' occured $cnt1 times\n";
print "'\\d+' occured $cnt2 times\n";
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But there are some problems: what if one of your regexps is part of another one?

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Re^4: How can I access the number of repititions in a regex? by pat_mc (Pilgrim) on Dec 18, 2008 at 15:15 UTC
Good stuff, grizley! Thanks for throwing code evaluation expressions into the race ... they offer exactly the range of flexibility I need to solve my class of problems ... and - as you can tell by the date on this post - it took me quite some time to realise (a) what they are and (b) how they work. Your help is much apprecicated! Best regards - Pat	[reply]

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