Hey, thanks. That helped to clarify it a bit. I actually was not aware of the ( match ) [ index ] syntax. I tried some similar stuff but never got it quite right, and wondered if I was still in the right ballpark at all.

That's pretty much what I was looking for in the clean practical solution that I suspected the existence of. Also yeah thanks for pointing out my typing gaffe with the @awesome. And the doc:// shortcuts are great to know about, actually I see that there are a lot of interesting things happening in that section.

I am still curious about the guts of it, ie what you mentioned in your second update, but will for now simply accept that perl works in mysterious ways. Thanks again!

In reply to Re^2: accessing the result of a match as an array by intuited
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