On Dec 19, Bram Heyns said:

>For example if I have a string like "aaaa" and I want to match every
>"aa" in there, how should I do this?

Use a look-ahead:

  while ($str =~ /(?=pattern)/g) { ... }

so you'd use /(?=aa)/g there.

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