In the below link I came across
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html?page=8
$_ = "abracadabra"; @all = m:any /a.*?a/; produces:
abra abraca abracada abracadabra aca acada acadabra ada adabra abra
That only shows substrings within string that begin with start letter.
Visually - abracadabra becomes: abra abraca abracada abracadabra ...aca ...acada ...acadabra .....ada .....adabra .......abra
So, you see what you get as a substring, with 'a' as the starting letter. Is that what you wanted?
What Rob wrote splits combinations of class set from class group strings. Two totally different things.
I guess I am confused. -Sx-
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