strange results using m//g in while loop...

[Damian]

The number of the last successful capture in the regex is $#- and the
total number of captures in the regex is in $#+.

Ouch! These *really* ought to be the same.

I would prefer to write $#+ as @+-1, because $#+ is an ordinal
while scalar(@+) is a cardinal. This would bite if you were daft
enough to change $[...

Cardinal? What exactly do you mean by that? It seems to make no
difference at all over than cosmetic.

 

[Tad McClellan]

Ben Morrow wrote:

Cardinal? What exactly do you mean by that?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cardinal numbers