in reply to Re: The story of a strange line of code: pos($_) = pos($_);
in thread The story of a strange line of code: pos($_) = pos($_);
No, it can't give an infinite loop, exactly because of the empty match rule.
As I noted in the very last paragraph in the post, resetting pos is not making this worse because we don't recall the main regexen from @toktab after we reset pos.
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