Perhaps you should put in your docs that use re 'eval'; is required to get this to work - it complained when I tried without that. ;-)

Also, I tried the following: 

use Regexp::NamedCaptures;
use re 'eval';

my $s = 'blah bbbbbbbb baz';
my $foo;
my $q = Regexp::NamedCaptures::convert('blah (?<$foo>\w+) (\w+)(?:\s+(
+\w+))');
print $q,"\n";

my @x = $s =~ qr/$q/;
print "foo = $foo\n\@x = ", join(', ',map { "[$_]" } @x), "\n";

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just to try it out. I expected @x to contain 'baz'. Or to contain 'bbbbbbbb', 'baz'. I wasn't sure which. I got just 'bbbbbbbb'. Looking at the first line, $q, I see that convert managed to stop after the (?<$foo>\w+) portion - everything after that close-parenthesis was dropped.

Thought you might like to know ;-)

Using perl 5.8.6 on linux.

Update: Two fixes. First, my code. That final (?:\s+(\w+)) needs a ? afterwards (an optional capture). Second, the original module: we need to insert else { $out .= $expression } at line 105 - after the if ( '(?<' ... block. Note that without the first fix, the regular expression doesn't match, but $foo gets set anyway. We probably need a way to back out the changes if the expression fails.

I'll leave you with this harder bug. ;-) However, that does mean that this does not quite behave as advertised - $foo is getting set even if the match fails, thus the "if (/.../) { $foo = $1 }" example in your perldoc is not quite describing how it behaves.

In reply to Re: Regexp::NamedCaptures, at last by Tanktalus
in thread Regexp::NamedCaptures, at last by diotalevi

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