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skkeni04 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I have a doubt which might seem basic but here it is:

my $a = "This is Perl"; $a =~/^(.+)(e|r)(.*)$/;

I get $1= This is Pe; $2= r; $3= l;

According to me, it should be "$1= This is Perl". $2 and $3 should be null. So my doubt is how are the capture brackets evaluated?