Re: search one instance

m/^.*?(data)/

An example

perl -le '$_="abc"."data" x 5;print;
print "position of first data : ",pos while  m/^.*?(?=data)/g;'

abcdatadatadatadatadata
position of first data : 3
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Re^2: search one instance by raybies (Chaplain) on Nov 03, 2010 at 16:24 UTC
when I tried your example, it reported the position of the last "data", not the first.	[reply]
Re^2: search one instance by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Nov 03, 2010 at 19:22 UTC
I, also, cannot figure out how you get a position of 3 from the given code.	[reply]
Re^3: search one instance by suhailck (Friar) on Nov 04, 2010 at 01:11 UTC
Sorry, i missed out a question mark "?" in m/^.*?(?=data)/ Thanks for noticing that :) Updated the code above...	[reply]