Making the regex engine "halt" after each match

Hello!

I'd like to do the following:

Given just one line of text, match every occurrence of a
double letter
and push those double letters on my_stack. Say, if we are
given

$line = "This line contains some occurrences of double
letters,
hoorray";

then I want my_stack to end up containing "cc",
"rr", "tt", "oo",
"rr";

Everything I tried so far just put the first occurrence of
double
letters (in this example, "cc") on the stack,
even if I used the /g
option for my match. I suppose the regex engine matched
every
occurrence, but somehow it didnt "halt" and
"care to push" every single
one of the on my_stack.

So... how should I go about the above problem?

Many thanks for your help!! Dominic


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contrary to what u r probably  thinking, regex engine of any
flavor
does keep track of the matches it's gathering. They are
collected as a
Match collection (string array). For example using your
input

This line contains some occurrences of double letters,
hoorray

and match pattern

([a-z])\1

we can catch 6 occurrences of double letters:

Match $1
cc
rr
tt
oo
rr

then u can accees the Match Collection and assign the 6
values to your
variable(s)
or do some smth else with them.


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