What does this output?

$ perl -le '($a = "aabbb") =~ s/b*$/c/g; print $a'

Cunning multilinguists may also answer the same question of these,
(which nominally do the same thing)

$ ruby -e 'p "aabbb".gsub(/b*$/, "c")'

$ python -c "import re; print re.sub(r'b*$', 'c', 'aabbb')"

Enjoy...

Paul

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