note Corion <p>Having a quantifier after capturing parentheses is almost always an error.</p> <p>Maybe you want to directly populate your list?</p> <c> my @matches = ($string =~ /([A-Z]{3})/g; </c> <p>but that approach will not work if your input data contains non-alphabetical chars, like:</p> <c> AAA..BBB </c> <p>If you want a match to start at a specific position, see [doc://perlre] on <c>\G</c>.</p> 948417 948417