Hi,
Read with Patience.
Backreferences( $1, $2 ...) are lexically scoped,
which means
in a match like m/(<REGEX1>)(<REGEX2>) etc ..../
Suppose REGEX1 does not match, then $1 remains undefined, and if REGEX2,
3 ... do match then $2, $3 will respectively hold the matches in parentheses
2, 3 etc.
My problem is
say $some_var = "ababababababab"; ##here ab occurs 7 times
if I say
@get_match_list = ( $some_var =~ m/(ab){5,14}/g );
## i.e get a least 5 matches and at most 14
@get_match_list will contain only one val i.e "ab",
that's b'coz $1 is lexically scoped to the first( the only ) parentheses
in the reg-exp.
So, $1 is overwritten on each match.
IN SUCH A SCENARIO, IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET ALL THE MATCHES
THANKS IN ADVANCE,
Sumanth Sharma
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