It sounds like the (?{ ... }) blocks are captures. They always referer to the $year, $month and $day variables created by the first call to test. If that's the case, then the solution would be to avoid using lexical (my) variables. The following is an untested (Update: tested) fix: 

sub test {
  my ($date) = @_;
  print $date,"\n";
  our   ($year, $month, $day);
  local (*year, *month, *day);
  $date =~ m/
    (\d+)  (?{ $year  = $^N })
    -
    (\d+)  (?{ $month = $^N })
    -
    (\d+)  (?{ $day   = $^N })
  /x;
  print "$year-$month-$day\n";
}

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I'm assuming this is just a simplifciation of your problem. If not, don't use experiemental features for nothing. Use something like the following instead: 

sub test {
  my ($date) = @_;
  print $date,"\n";
  my ($year, $month, $day) = $date =~ m/(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)/;
  print "$year-$month-$day\n";
}

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Of course, you should check if the regexp actually succeeded before using the date components. None of the snippets do this.

Update: Neither yours nor my first snippet work in Perl 5.6.1, but that's because $^N didn't exist before Perl 5.8.0.

In reply to Re: regex and embedded perl code by ikegami
in thread regex and embedded perl code by neybar

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