Dear Monks, I'm on need of wisdom,

The problem is that I'm having problems trying to use regexes to retrieve matches that are defined as one/none or more. I'm trying with a simple file as example:

 
1 23 456 789 0123 456
2 24 456 789 0123 456
3 23 456 789 0123 456
4 23 456 789 0123 456
5 23 456 789 0123 456

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And I was wondering if it's possible to parse and assign them to variables in just one step. The regex I was trying to use was something like


while (<$fd>) {
    my $regex = '^(?:(\d+)\s+)+(\d+)$';

    (my ($d1, $d2, $d3, $d4, $d5, $d6) = $_) =~ m/$regex/;

    print "Line $.\n";
    print "\t$d1\n";

}

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It doesn't work as I'd expect. It matches, but only retrieves the last two elements because instead of getting an array of results for the (?: )+ regex part it stores only the last one.

I know a split would work without that much of a hassle but.. shouldn't be possible to do that just with a regex? I've tried different things without success and I haven't found any relevant example of this.

Thanks,

In reply to Variable matching on a regex by LaintalAy

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