G'day hdb,

"How can this be?"

The underlying problem is that "$1" can only have one value for each iteration of map.

If you swap the CAUSE and AFFECT (__DATA__) lines, you get the same result; however, if you swap the cause and effect (map) lines, you get both values set to FAIL. Also, removing CAUSE or AFFECT from __DATA__ correctly gives a match result and an UNDEF.

"And how can it be fixed?"

This worked for me:

    'cause'  => ((/CAUSE (\S+)/)[0] || 'UNDEF'),
    'effect' => ((/AFFECT (\S+)/)[0] || 'UNDEF'),

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"(Must be a case of Perl punishing my vanity...)"

If you say so :-)

Update: Sorry, not sure what happened, I just typed the wrong words: s{you get the correct result.}{you get both values set to FAIL.}

-- Ken

In reply to Re: Unexpected matching results by kcott
in thread Unexpected matching results by hdb

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