Re: Vexing regex question--storing multiple hits for later use

"Daniel J. Tomso" wrote:
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> I'm matching a pattern against a long string, and I want to examine each
> occurrence of the match.  I know that $& stores the match, but is there
> a way to store EVERY match in the string, and then look at them?
> 
> Example:
> 
> $str = "This is a very long string, isn't it?"
> 
> If I want to match against something like /i[st]/ to pick up all the
> 'is' and 'it' strings, then see what I've got (i.e. each instance), can
> I do it?
> 

is this what you're after:

$str = "This is a very long string, isn't it?"
foreach ($str =~ /(i[is])/g)
{
  do stuff
}    

or collect them all:

$str = "This is a very long string, isn't it?"
my @store = ($str =~ /(i[is])/g);

I'm not sure this is what you wanted...
/Jon

> I've tried to wade through the whole \G /g etc. world, but it doesn't
> seem to work for me.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Dan T.
> planted@nc.rr.com
> 
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• Vexing regex question--storing multiple hits for later use by Daniel J. Tomso
• Re: Vexing regex question--storing multiple hits for later use by Jenda Krynicky
• Re: Vexing regex question--storing multiple hits for later use by Jon Molin