Thank you all for the words of wisdom.

As tadman points out, it makes sense that variables $1 etc keep their values in inner scopes - I might need them! However, if local($1,$2,$3) did exactly what local($x,$y,$z) does, namely save the outer scope values and undefine the localized ones, the behavior would be simpler to understand and to control. <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=61482&lastnode_id=61478>japhy would pperhaps agree.



<a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=61482&lastnode_id=61478>japhy would probably agree.

Lessons learned: Your use of a split(), however, is a scary sight to behold, tadman writes.
OK, it may be inefficient, but it separates the concerns neatly. Split produces a list in which separator-strings and blocks-between-separators alternate. I can confidently walk down the list and examine and/or modify each block without worrying at the same time about where the block ends. Assuming, of course, that the regex used in split correctly identifies all separator-strings in the text.

Rudif

In reply to Re: Scoping the regex memory variables and where do I go next by Rudif
in thread Scoping the regex memory variables and where do I go next by Rudif

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