Re^2: better way to get last named capture group

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The source is in perl's universal.c, but the update tie methods don't do anything; the read tie methods call named_buff or named_buff_iter to get the data from the regex engine. So no patching possible.

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Re^3: better way to get last named capture group by LanX (Saint) on Jul 04, 2025 at 10:53 UTC
Yeah, the tie is basically only a frontend to the regex engine. One side effect is that you can tie other %hashes to act like %+ and %- Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]

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