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I've updated the OP to clarify my expectations.

The whole point is to modify the referent in-place. The selection for the substring reference used by the recursion is far more complicated in the real situation.

The point of my question is not really "How to get this output", but more "Why do changes that get made during recursion get unwound, when the entity being modified is (relatively speaking) static."

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In reply to Re^4: Scalar refs, aliasing, and recursion weirdness. by BrowserUk
in thread Scalar refs, aliasing, and recursion weirdness. by BrowserUk

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