You are right, grep will not do captures in such a situation. I might not have been clear, but I only mentionned is as an additional useful tool in similar synctactic context, for filtering purpose.

Having said that you can do something akin to captures in a grep, although it is not very clean. Consider this: 

  DB<1> @a = qw (foobar barfoo foobaz, bar, foobor);

  DB<2> @c = grep {s/fo(ob.).+/$1/} @a;

  DB<3> x @c
0  'oba'
1  'oba'
2  'obo'

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Not clean, I would not really recommend it, but not impossible.

In reply to Re^3: Capturing regex from map by Laurent_R
in thread Capturing regex from map by trippledubs

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