Fellows
I was trying to capture some different patterns using some large and weird regular expressions, and came across a funny problem. I need to capture a single piece of the code to a variable, but I have a lot of capture-enabled parentesis across the entire regular expression. So I tryied something like this:

  my ( $piece ) = 
    $strange_thing =~ m/($large)|$wei($rd)|($stra)$nge/;

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I know for sure that when something matches, I will get it on the ${0} - ${\d+} variables, but what is happen is: when things matches with ($large), all goes fine, and $piece contains what I need; but when $strange_thing matches any other pattern, $piece ends with nothing inside. I'm doing something really stupid, I know, but I can't see what. How can I use the same cage to capture many different birds, one at a time?

Thank you all and may the gods bless you all.

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In reply to Many birds, single cage... by monsieur_champs

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