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Re^4: A regex that only matches at offset that are multiples of a given N?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 13, 2013 at 16:36 UTC

    Because with it, it only matches the first match; not any second or subsequent properly aligned matches?:

    print "$-[0]: $1" while $a =~ m[(?:.{4})*(?=(aa..))]g;; 0: aawx 404: aawx 405: aadz 481: aadz print "$-[0]: $1" while $a =~ m[^(?:.{4})*(?=(aa..))]g;; 0: aawx print "$-[0]: $1" while $a =~ m[(?:.{4})*(?=(gg..))]g;; 0: gghn 208: gghn 211: ggyj 955: ggyj print "$-[0]: $1" while $a =~ m[^(?:.{4})*(?=(gg..))]g;; 0: gghn

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