On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:37:09PM +0200, Ph. Marek wrote:
> But that gets me to the next question, ie I don't understand the
> difference between exhaustive and overlap.
>
> Is it that overlap fixes the first point of the pattern match and does
> further scanning for all possibilities, and exhaust
> > # With the new :ov (:overlap) modifier, the current rule will match at
> > all possible character positions (including overlapping) and return all
> > matches in a list context, or a disjunction of matches in a scalar
> > context. The first match at any position is returned.
> >
> > $str =
> # With the new :ov (:overlap) modifier, the current rule will match at all
> possible character positions (including overlapping) and return all matches
> in a list context, or a disjunction of matches in a scalar context. The
> first match at any position is returned.
>
> $str = "abracad
