Re: [ID 20010830.003] Strange regexp behaviour (think not propercleaning of internal bufeers)

On Aug 31, Ronald J Kimball said:

>perlop:
>
>               If the PATTERN evaluates to the empty string, the
>               last successfully matched regular expression is
>               used instead.
>
>I found those by searching perlop for the word 'last'.

I don't see how I missed them by searching for "empty".

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• [ID 20010830.003] Strange regexp behaviour (think not propercleaning of internal bufeers) by Maks N. Polunin
• Re: [ID 20010830.003] Strange regexp behaviour (think not proper cleaning of internal bufeers) by Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
• Re: [ID 20010830.003] Strange regexp behaviour (think not proper cleaning of internal bufeers) by Ronald J Kimball
• Re: [ID 20010830.003] Strange regexp behaviour (think not propercleaning of internal bufeers) by Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan