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Expand Up @@ -1710,8 +1710,6 @@ off. C<\G> allows us to easily do context-sensitive matching:

The combination of C</g> and C<\G> allows us to process the string a
bit at a time and use arbitrary Perl logic to decide what to do next.
Currently, the C<\G> anchor is only fully supported when used to anchor
to the start of the pattern.

C<\G> is also invaluable in processing fixed-length records with
regexps. Suppose we have a snippet of coding region DNA, encoded as
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