I found something that does work: pos (and $+[0]). Actually, argless pos works even if we're not operating on $_!

Therefore, this hack works:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $re0;
my $re1;

our $s_pos;

$re1 = qr/
          (?{ local $s_pos = pos; })
          [A-Z]
          (?{ print("[", substr($_, $s_pos, pos()-$s_pos), "]\n") })
       /x;

$re0 = qr/
          (??{ $re1 })
          (??{ $re1 })
       /x;

'abcDE' =~ $re0;

__END__
output
======
[D]
[E]

[download]

yuck!

Update: Adding an extra capture also works! Kudos to blokhead for this solution.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $re0;
my $re1;

$re1 = qr/
          ([A-Z])
          (?{ print("[$1]\n") })
       /x;

$re0 = qr/
          ()
          (??{ $re1 })
          (??{ $re1 })
       /x;

'abcDE' =~ $re0;

__END__
output
======
[D]
[E]

[download]

In reply to Re: Using a capture in /(?{...})/ by ikegami
in thread Using a capture in /(?{...})/ by ikegami

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