Re: How can I count characters between two same substrings in a string where the substring is repeated more than 5 times?

$a="batcatratdeercatdogmousepalmcocoacatdoll monkeycatsusandollypollyc
+atpomkelly";;

print $-[2] - $+[1] while $a =~ m[(cat)(?=.+?(cat))]g;;
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