How to get a regex to start from the beginning of a string

Question

This is an oddball issue I\'ve encountered (and probably have seen before but never paid attention to).

Here\'s the gist of the code:

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Answer 1

m//g does not reset the position. You need to do that manually. See this for reference: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/pos.html

I believe you just set pos to 0 or undef and it will work.