Hello fellow monks. I am a n00b and I have stumbled upon a very perplexing question. I was hoping that with your ultimate powers of programming, you could help me. Here it goes:

I have this loop:

while ( $_[0]->seq() =~ m/CG/g ) {++$CG;}

It goes on to infinity.

$_[0]->seq() : returns a big string -- a dna sequence

And the rest you probably know what it does. So why can't it just work. A being that is higher than me( my so-called teacher) has suggested it's an "order of operations" problem.

Hope it helps.

How can I solve it without writing other lines of code???

Yours truly,
=d(o_o)b=

In reply to Infinity loop by doob

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