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Perl

Pattern matching that picks up where it left off before.

Perl — Perl Glossary

Related Perl terms

assertion
Atom
backreference
backtracking
fileglob
glob
greedy
leftmost longest
lookahead
lookbehind
Matching
pattern
Pattern Matching
regular expression
run-time pattern
zero width

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