Re^6: Regex for matching n-fold repititions of arbitrary characters

[LanX]

Note that if "aabbaab" =~ /aa|bb/g is wrong. Red flags should be raised when you see /g in scalar context outside a loop.

Not necessarily! It makes sense when parsing with nested ifs! Friedl's book has some nifty examples...

[ikegami]

I didn't say m//g in scalar context outside a loop is wrong. I said it's usually wrong. I said the code he used was wrong.

And I bet his tokenizers used /c too