There's no way that code gives that output. Since $_ never changes, the middle condition is always true so $1 is always {i>. Also you print \n but your output is on one line...

Your code is missing the /g option, which would make each search start from the position of the previous match. And if you want to search for all alternatives at once, rather than one first, then the second and so on you can replace the test (/(A)/g || /(B)/g || /(C)/g) by (/(A|B|C)/g) (regexes work on $_ by default, so you can ommit the $_ =~). See perlretut for more information on regexes.

Also { } are special characters in regexes, it works in your case, but you should escape them to avoid trouble.

In reply to Re: Matching patterns with or by Eily
in thread Matching patterns with or by corfuitl

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