Re: RFC 110 (v2) counting matches

[Bart Lateur]

On 27 Aug 2000 19:01:45 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:

>m//g just returns 1 for matching.

Er... but in a scalar context, m//g DOES only match once! If you want
more, repeat the match. Or use it in a list context, then it will try to
match them all.

        $_ = "abaabbbababbbabbaaa";
        while(/(b+)/g) {
            print "Got a '$1'\n";
        }
-->
        Got a 'b'
        Got a 'bbb'
        Got a 'b'
        Got a 'bbb'
        Got a 'bb'

Let's try again:

        $_ = "abaabbbababbbabbaaa";
        print scalar(() = /b+/g);
-->
        5

Is that what you're after?

-- 
        Bart.