Well possibly I was thinking that it has only worked "so far" and that some landmine is potentially waiting, since I haven't seen that construct elsewhere. I'm not exposed to a lot of code though so I usually suspect any original thought is either not original or wrong for some reason I haven't thought of. I usually see something like 
my ($match_1,$match_2) = ($string =~ /(.*):(.*)/)

// And in my own scripts I'm using constructs like

my ($wanted_service) = (map { /^online.*svc:(.*?):/ } `svcs`)[15];

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Someone asked me, what is the best way to do x, I reach for the handy regex mapper, but I'm not sure it is the best. In sum: lack of confidence and the competitive drive for perfection. AND to a smaller degree, I want more xp. Why did you wonder why I wondered? This might go on all day, maybe I'll level up! :)

In reply to Re^2: Capturing regex from map by trippledubs
in thread Capturing regex from map by trippledubs

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