[Omaha.pm] Fwd: weird perl bug

[Dan Linder]

Andy Lester wrote:
> The first statement matches, and leaves the internal matching pointer
pointing
> after the first match, which means at the end of the first string.  Then,
the second
> match tries to pick up at the same place, because of the /g flag.

The "/g" flag carries across multiple matching calls/lines?

Learn something new every day...  Thanks!

Dan

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