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in thread Regex Capturing: Is this a bug or a feature?

Well, the documentation doesn't say they're scoped like "local" would do :-)

In a way you're right, but imho there is no problem arising from this issue if you always use your own variables instead of $1 .. $n. (Which means you assign your own vars immediately after the match).

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Regex Capturing: Is this a bug or a feature?
by shotgunefx (Parson) on Sep 28, 2002 at 21:17 UTC
    Well there is no problem if and ONLY if you conditionally assign based on the match.

    I'm not complaining about how it works, more about how it's documented. dynamic and local() are equated many times in the perlpods.

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