Possessive quantifiers vs. (?>...)

I'm working on a program for searching through databases of Latin and Greek text encoded in plain ascii and "binary" bytes. The monster regex that is generated to do the job contains a bunch of possessive quantifiers, so my question is about the difference between the (?>...) expression and the ?+,

In the debugger, how do I repeat a command n times?

Some GDB commands (e.g. "step") take a numerical argument n that tells the debugger to repeat the command n times. Does the perl debugger have a similar feature? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.or