Re^4: Elegant way to split into sequences of identical chars?

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Another curiosity: it is a special feature of m//g that if you don't parenthesize anything, it will return the entire match, so removing the parentheses from your first example changes nothing.

However, removing the outer parentheses from your second example causes a crash on my box (ActiveState 5.8.7).

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Re^5: Elegant way to split into sequences of identical chars? by jonix (Friar) on Nov 30, 2005 at 19:48 UTC
Just tried this with perl v5.8.7 on my gentoo linux box at home: `/$re/g` matches `x 5 6 x` `/(??{$re})/g` matches `xx 55 6 xx` Cheers, jonix	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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