Re^5: How to know that a regexp matched, and get its capture groups?

OK, I thought this performance issue was resolved for versions newer than 10-15 years.

Anyway

${^MATCH}
This is similar to $& ($MATCH) except that it does not incur the perfo
+rmance penalty associated with that variable.

This variable was added in Perl v5.10.0.
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though I don't understand the /p comment

Cheers Rolf
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Re^6: How to know that a regexp matched, and get its capture groups? by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 10, 2023 at 12:30 UTC
If you want ${^MATCH} to work in pre-5.20, you need to use /p, which imposes the performance penalty only on the marked regex. On 5.20+, /p is a noop and ${^MATCH} works always, plus all the performance penalties are gone (not tested by me). `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]