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diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index cc657c1446..96427b2a05 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -811,15 +811,13 @@ substrings matched by all the parentheses in the regular expression. If there are no parentheses, it returns a list of all the matched strings, as if there were parentheses around the whole pattern. -In scalar context, C<m//g> iterates through the string, returning TRUE -each time it matches, and FALSE when it eventually runs out of matches. -(In other words, it remembers where it left off last time and restarts -the search at that point. You can actually find the current match -position of a string or set it using the pos() function; see -L<perlfunc/pos>.) A failed match normally resets the search position to -the beginning of the string, but you can avoid that by adding the C</c> -modifier (e.g. C<m//gc>). Modifying the target string also resets the -search position. +In scalar context, each execution of C<m//g> finds the next match, +returning TRUE if it matches, and FALSE if there is no further match. +The position after the last match can be read or set using the pos() +function; see L<perlfunc/pos>. A failed match normally resets the +search position to the beginning of the string, but you can avoid that +by adding the C</c> modifier (e.g. C<m//gc>). Modifying the target +string also resets the search position. You can intermix C<m//g> matches with C<m/\G.../g>, where C<\G> is a zero-width assertion that matches the exact position where the previous |