In continuation of Re^3: Greedy modifier found to be working non-greedy in a named group

• There is a way to get the pos of capture groups by index via @- and @+
• There is a way to get capture groups by name via %+
• But what's the way to get the positions of a named capture?

I googled and could only find this SO discussion match-positions-of-named-capture-groups-in-perls-regexps but poor Felix didn't get a proper answer.

Though I slightly remember we already had this discussion here...

(something like finding the index of a named capture and accessing @+ / @- probably? Hint: %- doesn't help here)

update

I tried to look into Tie::Hash::NamedCapture , the "Pragmatic Module" used to implement %+ and %- but stopped at the XS barrier

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