Re: behavior of m// operator

Nathan <user@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
According to the documentation this program should print nothing since
m// uses the last successful pattern match from m//, split, etc.

My docs don't explicitly say whether the regex used in a split counts
as previously "matched" or not in this context. Experimentally, it looks
to me like it does not.

Xho

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