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i made a mistake it should be length($_)==3.

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Re^2: regex issue
by ExReg (Priest) on Aug 03, 2016 at 18:20 UTC

    A slightly different approach can give you what you are looking for. By using a lookahead, you can do what you want.

    $term = 'Dit is het eerste het is niet het laatste Dit'; @captured = $term =~ /\b(\w\w\w)\b(?=.*\1\b)/g; print join ' ', @captured; _____________ Dit het het

    The \b are word boudaries (change from letter/number/underscore) to non-letter/number/underscore or vice-versa.

    The (?= looks forward for what comes after it, but remembers where it starts.

    The \1 is the same as your \g1 (I unfortunately have an older perl.)

    The g at the end means capture them all

    het appears twice since it is there three times

      Small correction, you missed a word-boundary assertion in the look-ahead. The regex should be:
      /\b(\w\w\w)\b(?=.*\b\1\b)/g
      Without the additional \b before \1, three-letter words that are trailing substrings of other words would also match.

        Thanks. I missed that copying from the PC that has perl that I tested this on to this one.

      Thank you