I was wondering if there was an easy way of stuffing the capturing variables ($1, $2, etc) into an array which could be accessed from the replacement portion of the s/// operator (so you could do a foreach, etc. on them). You could always do something like... 
s/$regex/@a=($1, $2, $3).../e;

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but if the regex is program generated then you have to create another string with the proper number of terms in it and eval it (or I suppose you could do something like @a=(\$1,\$2,...,\$100) before-hand an pray you never get more capturing parentheses). I'm sure it's possible to gin up something using @-,@+, and substr, but I'm thinking that there is probably a better, more DWIM path to enlightnment.

In reply to Array of ($1, $2, ...) in replacement part of s///? by sleepingsquirrel

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