I'm writing a program that would take a line of text, match on a word that would end in 'a' and also capture up to the next 5 characters. Here is the program. 

r/bin/perl
use v5.12;
use warnings;

##  9/26/19    
##  Program uses named captures instead of $1


       chomp(my $text = <STDIN>);
       while (<>) {                   # take one input line at a time
         chomp;
         if ( $text =~ m/((?<word1>\b\w*a\b))(?<word2>\s+++++))/) {
            print "Matched: |$`<$&>$'|\n";  # the special match vars
            print " 'word' contains '$+{word1} $+<word2>'\n";
         } else {
              print "No match: |$_|\n";
         }

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and here is the errors that I'm getting

Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/((?<word1>\b\w*a\
+b))(?<word2>\s+++ <-- HERE ++))/ at ./Chapter8_Exer5 line 12

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TIA The catfish

In reply to Trying out 2 captures by catfish1116

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