given how smart perl is, I was thinking there must be a function within perl whereby if one does a pattern match against a scaler, that in addition to having regex being able to return such built in vars as: $` (what preceeds the match), $' (what follows the match), $1, etc.
is there a built in var that returns the position within the scalar where the match occurred? of course, if not, one may always evaluate length($`). I was just curious
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