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... \G having to refer back to the last match.

IIUC, the \G anchor refers to the pos of the string against which the match is being attempted (the pos from a previous, unsuccessful match attempt having been preserved by the /c modifier), and so should should be pretty cheap/quick. Is your experience otherwise?

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Re^5: regex gotcha moving from 5.8.8 to 5.30.0?
by kschwab (Vicar) on Feb 10, 2021 at 05:43 UTC
    No, but it's a regression, and seems to be narrowed down somewhere in: 
    $text =~ /\G \s* ^ \s* begfoo \s+ (\S+?) \s* \( \s* (.*?) \s
+* \) \s* ;/gcmsx

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    And it sounds like replacing .*? with [^;]*? was tried.
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