Hi!

I have a quite annoying problem here for which I found a workaround already but would rather like to see why this is happening, so I'm asking here :-)

I have a loop around a match, which looks like the following:

use LWP::UserAgent;
# request in here
for ($res->content =~ m/foo(.*?)bar/g) {
    print "$_ - $1\n";
}
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The problem is that $1 is always the first match. When I use $_ in this loop I get the thing I want - each new match in each iteration of the loop. I also tried it with a while loop but that one seems to go forever and also just displays the first match also like within the for loop with $1...

/me is totally confused.
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Alfie

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