Re: strange behaviour: continue with \G and /gc and look forward

[tybalt89]

       The higher-level loops preserve an additional state between ite
+rations:
       whether the last match was zero-length.  To break the loop, the
       following match after a zero-length match is prohibited to have
+ a
       length of zero.  This prohibition interacts with backtracking (
+see
       "Backtracking"), and so the second best match is chosen if the 
+best
       match is of zero length.

[leszekdubiel]

Ok thank you very much. Community around perl is great. Actually I've been programming perl for a long time and this bite me for the first time.

Here is the link:

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Backtracking

search for phrase " higher-level loops "