Backtracking Control Verbs

• (*SKIP:name)

• • when backtracked into the engine will reject all matches up to the point where the cursor was when the (*SKIP) was entered.
  • can be coupled with (*MARK:name) to skip the text up to the point where the (*MARK) was executed.
  • Can be used with (*FAIL) to find all of the non overlapping matches in a string:
  • 'aaabaaab'=~/a+b?(*SKIP)(?{print $&})(*FAIL)/