How can a regex match every occurence of a string?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

$a="hi";
$b ="hello";
$c = "hibobhi";
$c=~ s/$a/$b/;
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How can I make $c = "hellobobhello" not "hellobobhi"?

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Re: How can a regex match every occurence of a string? by agoth (Chaplain) on Aug 25, 2000 at 15:17 UTC
use /g; as your modifier.	[reply]