perlre tells us to use the \G anchor :

  while ($res->content =~ m/\G.*?foo(.*?)bar/g) {
    print "$_ - $1\n";
  };

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Maybe you'll want to read Death to Dot Star! before you use .*?, but unless we know more about the data, .*? will have to do ;-)

Update: If I run this program :

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $string = "fooAbar" .
             "fooBbar" .
             "gooCbar" .
             "fooDfooEbar" .
             "foo";

while ($string =~ m/\G.*?foo(.*?)bar/g) {
  print $1, "\n";
};

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I get the following, expected output :

H:\>perl -w test.pl
A
B
DfooE

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I guess the error lies somewhere else in your regular expression then - maybe post the whole RE together with some sample data.

In reply to Re: $1 doesn't reset? by Corion
in thread $1 doesn't reset? by alfie

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