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Re: Re: Re: Re: pos()atively mysterious.

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Dec 16, 2002 at 11:01 UTC ( [id://220167]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Re: pos()atively mysterious.
in thread pos()atively mysterious.

Ah so! Grasshopper. Thanks++

No matter how many times I read

Returns the offset of where the last m//g search left off for the variable in question.

I never took in the significance of those last 5 words.

Makes sense (now:), if was just the last position matched by the last m//g which was how I was reading it, there would be no need for a function; a $var would do.

D'oh!


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