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Woah!

That works. I expected it would fail because the first group would match everything and then there would be nothing for the 2nd group to match against.

Here's the code I used to test:

#! /usr/bin/perl -w -T

use strict;

my $str = 'foo_bar_foo_bar_12345';

print "$str\n";
$str =~ /(.*)(\1.*)/ || die "Failed!\n";
print "$2\n";
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Can anyone explaine why that is?

In reply to Re^2: regular expression by pileofrogs
in thread regular expression by Rahul Gupta

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