Hello all. In Ruby & Python, one can have a regular expression, with backreferences, and then access the backrefernces as a list, and it's sub lists. For example, The Ruby code below returns the 1st backreference from a regexp 

return line.match(/^integer.*?\"(\S+)\"/)[1]

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I am looking for something other than:  @a =($1,$2,$3,$4) ; And rather: 

@a=$foo[1..4];

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I could not find something similar to that in PERL, other than a reference to $+ $-, which is not what I wanted and has a warning about performance. Any ideas?

In reply to A list of backreferences from a regex by ISAI student

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