Yes, you’re right. So in dave_the_m’s example, all we need to do is add another set of parentheses:

/(....)...(...)...((??{foo()}))....(...)/
 ^        ^       ^                ^
 1        2       3                4

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and the dynamically generated capture group is assigned to $3. For example:

use Modern::Perl;

my $str  = 'abcd$$$$$ef';
my @caps = $str =~ /(a)b(c)d((??{'(.)' x 5}))e(f)/;

say join(', ', @caps);

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Output:

18:33 >perl 504_SoPW.pl
a, c, $$$$$, f

18:38 >

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What we (apparently) can’t get is multiple capture groups matches assigned to different capture groups (whether named or unnamed) from the same dynamic match. Correct?

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re^3: Evaluating code in a regex at runtime: (??{...}) by Athanasius
in thread Evaluating code in a regex at runtime: (??{...}) by 7stud

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