I think you've missed something.
- This is somewhat more of a feature. If you want to extract all matches from a regex, you can do @a=/regex/g and get all the strings that match. If you want the count, you could do $a=()=/regex/g;.
- From perlre:
Perl defines the following zero-width assertions: \G - Match only at pos() (e.g. at the end-of-match position of prior m//g)
In other words, if the regex starts with \G the match has to start at pos or the regex doesn't match.
- m//g shouldn't reset in scalar context until it fails. Otherwise you couldn't do loops such as while ($string =~ /regex/g) { ...
Perl Idioms Explained - @ary = $str =~ m/(stuff)/g by tachyon should help with regexes in list context.
Hope this helps.
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