Hi Damon, That's great. It works. I did not know that look ahead could be that helpful.
Thanks a million, Sumanth Sharma "Damon Allen Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I think I might be able to help you. > > Sumanth Sharma wrote: > > 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. > > That isn't actually the case. Well it is the case, but the idion you > are using does indeed capture *all* matches. The problem is with your > match limits: > > m/(ab){5,14}/g > > They are written outside of the capture. Try instead: > > m/((?:ab){5,14})/g > > where the first parentheses capture and the second, inner set groups the > string 'ab'. > > But I'm still not really sure this will behave as you expect. > > Best regards, > > Damon > > -- > > Damon Allen DAVISON > http://www.allolex.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
