Re^2: empty hits with regex

In 5.10, there's a much easier solution: (?|).

    $_ = "caaat";
    my @hits = /(?|c(a)|k(t))/g;
    say scalar @hits;
    say @hits;
    __END__
    1
    a
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Re^3: empty hits with regex by Tanktalus (Canon) on Oct 02, 2008 at 22:52 UTC
You just made me want to get our infrastructure team to upgrade to perl 5.10. Thanks. Now I'm not going to get any real work done next week.	[reply]