In trying to get something done a co-worker came up with this little regex:

perl -e 
'$a="abcde"x200;$a=~s{((\w+?)(??{!$b{$^N}++?"(?=)":"(?!)"}))}{($1)}xg;print
"$a\n";'

Basically, it creates a simple hash lookup of all the unique
occurrences of the string.

It's probably not practical for a whole lot, but it's still kind of cool.
--
Alan

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