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Re: [perl #119095] Empty regular expression does not match in somecases

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Zefram
Date:
July 31, 2013 15:14
Subject:
Re: [perl #119095] Empty regular expression does not match in somecases
Message ID:
20130731151349.GJ11327@fysh.org
Paul Johnson wrote:
>            If the PATTERN evaluates to the empty string, the last
>            successfully matched regular expression is used instead.

Addendum, which should probably go in the doc: you can use /(?:)/ to
get an effective empty pattern that will not invoke this magic.

-zefram
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