"Effectively that's the same thing as the end of the imaginary block. "

To be honest, I am confused by this. Doesn't the foreach block constitute it's own scope? I would interpret it like so... 
{

  # Your loop:
  foreach my $symbol (@syms){
    local ($1, $2) = ($1, $2); # OK, so you can't actually 
    local $test;
    $symbol=~m/(\w+)\.(\d+)/;
    print "symbol: $symbol\t\$1: $1\t\$2:$2\n";
    print "test is ",$test++,"\n";
    my ($ts,$te) = ($1,$2);
  }
}

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which is what I'd expect from local() scoping. I understand it's the regex engine so I don't have a problem with it not working the same way. I do think the documentation is very confusing and reminds me of my $x if 0 "feature"

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Regex Capturing: Is this a bug or a feature? by shotgunefx
in thread Regex Capturing: Is this a bug or a feature? by shotgunefx

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