Ok, so I managed to get version 5.10 on to my local machine at least. But I am not really sure how one would construct such large, aggregated, regexes. I didn't get any further than this: 
if ($text =~ /(?<p1>\b$pattern1\b)|(?<p2>\b$pattern2\b)/) {
  foreach my $foo (keys %+) {print $foo.','.$+{$foo}."\n";}
}

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but then of course I only get one of the matches (even if both match).

Could you please give me a little example of such a construct? The documentation didn't help me much, I'm afraid.

Many thanks, Ola

In reply to Re^2: Efficient regex matching with qr//; Can I do better? by kruppy
in thread Efficient regex matching with qr//; Can I do better? by kruppy

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