I am trying to parse inter-language links in Wikipedia. I need to know to what languages a given page has links. Let's say that $string is the page's text:

$string = "bla bla bla [[en:English]][[de:German]][[ga:Irish]] bla bla
+ bla";
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And i need the list:

qw(en de ga);
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I can do this:

@matches = ( $string = m/\[\[(en|de|ga):.+?]\]/g );
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And then i get qw(en de ga) in @matches, but that's because i have only one pair of capturing brackets, which is a limitation. If i do, for example:

@matches = ( $string = m/\[\[(en|de|ga):(.+?)]\]/g );
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Then i'll get qw(en English de German ga Irish). Is there a clever way to get a list of all the results from one pair of capturing brackets? I tried using Perl 5.10's named captures and %-. Either it can't be done this way or i am doing incorrectly. I tried this:

my $string = 'bla bla [[en:English]][[de:German]][[ga:Irish]] bla bla'
+;

if (my @matches = ($string =~ m/\[\[(?<lang>en|de|ga):(.+?)\]\]/g)) {
    say 'matches';
    say 'matches: ', Dumper(\@matches);
    say 'minus  : ', Dumper(\%-);
    say 'plus   : ', Dumper(\%+);
}
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i get this output:

matches
matches: $VAR1 = [
          'en',
          'English',
          'de',
          'German',
          'ga',
          'Irish'
        ];

minus  : $VAR1 = {
          'lang' => [
                      'ga'
                    ]
        };

plus   : $VAR1 = {
          'lang' => 'ga'
        };
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You see - only ('ga'), but is there some way to get:

$VAR1 = {
          'lang' => [
                      'en',
                      'de',
                      'ga'
                    ]
        };
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Thanks in advance for any help.

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