in reply to a regular expression problem

No need to execute any code inside a regular expression to solve your problem: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010; # only required for say()

$_ ='abacdbccdee';
if (/(?:[^bc]*[bc]){3}/g) {
    say pos;
}

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Re^2: a regular expression problem
by siskos1 (Acolyte) on Feb 29, 2012 at 16:10 UTC
    you had answered my similar problem about 2 years ago. i returned to perl recently again and all i can say is thank you. ^^
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