Re: Re: Re: Re: Capturing brackets within a repeat group

The thing with doing that is that it captures the whole of the repeat group as a single entity, whereas I was hoping to capture each of the individual parts seperately.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Capturing brackets within a repeat group by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jan 11, 2003 at 17:55 UTC
I beleive in Perl 6 the repeat applied to a capture group will cause that number to be an array. Or you can explicitly name it with an array name. Something like that. I don't see why you shouldn't be able to capture separatly in principle, if there is a fixed upper number. But Perl 5 regex syntax doesn't support that. You could squish the redundancy by making the repeat stuff in a variable and interpolating it n times or with a x operator. That would give you the "in one place" nice thing for maintainability.	[reply]

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by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jan 11, 2003 at 17:55 UTC

I don't see why you shouldn't be able to capture separatly in principle, if there is a fixed upper number. But Perl 5 regex syntax doesn't support that. You could squish the redundancy by making the repeat stuff in a variable and interpolating it n times or with a x operator. That would give you the "in one place" nice thing for maintainability.

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