On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 19:13, Hakim Cassimally <hakim.cassimally at gmail.com> wrote: > It's not a bug (though arguably it's a misfeature...) > > // matches the last pattern matched Ah, ok. Thank you. > (I can't see where this is documented though... perldoc perlre ?) It's discussed in perlop. Max