Please help with regexp - finding all matches?

From: Boris Pelakh (pelakh_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/08/04 

Date: 8 Apr 2004 06:35:58 -0700

I'm trying to extract name:value pairs from a string similar to this one

{a:b,c:d,e:f}

The individual pieces are more complicated, but its similar in principal

Here is a test script I use

$f = "a:b,c:d,e:f";
@a = ($f =~ m/(?:(\w+):(\w+))(?:,(?:(\w+):(\w+)))+/);
print "@a\n";

I should be seeing "a b c d e f", but I am only getting "a b e f",
i.e. the first and last group matched. Why am I not seeing the rest?
Ideally I want to just assign the result of the match to a hash.

-- Boris

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