On 2013-06-19 Bob MacCallum <uncool...@gmail.com> wrote: > so, forgetting the typo for a moment, why doesn't it output > 012 > 012 > 012 > 012 > ... > ? > > From my reading of the 5.12 perlre docs, there is no mention of > moving the cursor along by one position after each match. Maybe > that is a more general thing I wasn't aware of.
L<perlre/Repeated Patterns Matching a Zero-length Substring>
Summary: since C<//g> would be an infinite loop, Perl breaks it for
you, advancing the C<pos()> by one after each (0-len) match.
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