Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Might someone explain this little oddity.
$_ = "is this odd or not?"; @a = /(.*? )/gs; # note the ? is followed by a space print "@a";
It only gives one match here (5.6.1, linux). With only /g it matches multiple times. It also matches multiple times with /gsi, but not with combinations of /gs and other modifiers. It does multiple matches if you replace the trailing space in the re with a \s though.
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