Re: \G and regexes

The second TGA will match here:

TGA CAT GAC
      ^鵄^
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Because without /G, it will not start matching with three characters steps from the last match.

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Re^2: \G and regexes by 7stud (Deacon) on Apr 05, 2010 at 20:26 UTC
I know that. The question is why.	[reply]
Re^3: \G and regexes by choroba (Cardinal) on Apr 05, 2010 at 20:32 UTC
Because the \w\w\w part will match ACA and TGA will match TGA. The regexp does not specify the matching cannot start anywhere in the string, and that's what /G does.	[reply]
Re^4: \G and regexes by choroba (Cardinal) on Apr 05, 2010 at 22:53 UTC
I'm sorry, I haven't looked at the example again. The `\w\w\w` part does not match anything in the second case because of `*`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]