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in reply to Re: Perl Idioms Explained - @ary = $str =~ m/(stuff)/g
in thread Perl Idioms Explained - @ary = $str =~ m/(stuff)/g

Hmm it is of course as you say. I must have got myself confused with the behaviour of s///. 

$data = 'stuff stuff stuff';
$num = $data =~ s/(stuff)//g;
print $num, $/;
__DATA__
3

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You can force it to do as I said by cheating thusly.... 

$num = () = 'stuff stuff stuff' =~ m/(stuff)/g;
print $num;
__DATA__
3

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cheers

tachyon

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