in reply to Highlighting only captured groups from larger regex

One way would be with @{^CAPTURE}.

use strict; use warnings; use Test::More tests => 1; my $text = 'This is just an arbitrary example of text.'; my $query = qr~(?:(?:This)|(?:That)).*?(just).*?(arbitrary).*?$~; my @want = (qw/just arbitrary/); $text =~ $query; is_deeply \@{^CAPTURE}, \@want;

You will need Perl 5.25.7 or newer for this approach but TIMTOWTDI.


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