Opps, may have posted in the wrong board by accident, is there I way I can move it? - Update: Sorted, my thanks to the gods.

I've been seeing weird behaviour where regex matches and the $1 .. $X variables seem to get clobbered when using Switch.pm.

EXAMPLE: 

sub onSay 
{   
    my ($playerData, $message) = @_;
    my @userDetails = getPlayerProperties($playerData);

    &printDebug('[ON SAY]','INPUT: ' . $message);
    switch($message)
    {
        case m/xxkick #?(\d+) (.+)/i
        {
            my $toKick = $1;
            my $reason = $2;
            &printDebug('[ON SAY]',"$toKick, $1 || $2, $reason");
        }
        case m/xxban #?(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(.+)/i
        {
            my $toKick    = $1;
            my $banLength = $2;
            my $banReason = $3;
            &printDebug('[ON SAY]',"$1, $2, $3");
        }
    }
}
#--------------
# Output: 
#--------------
# 05/10/2010 @ 00:15:05 [ON SAY]: INPUT: xxkick 1206 test
# 05/10/2010 @ 00:15:05 [ON SAY]: SGR<1206><STEAM_0:1:2161308><Spectat
+or>, SGR<1206><STEAM_0:1:2161308><Spectator> || say, say

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Surely the above SHOULD read: 

05/10/2010 @ 00:15:05 [ON SAY]: INPUT: xxkick 1206 test
05/10/2010 @ 00:15:05 [ON SAY]: 1206, 1206 || test, test

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Am I doing anything obviously wrong? I can replicate this every time and have come across it before, using if, elsif etc. works as it should. i.e. 

if ($message =~ m/xxkick #?(\d+) (.+)/i) {
            my $toKick = $1;
            my $reason = $2;
            &printDebug('[ON SAY]',"$toKick, $1 || $2, $reason");
}

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Works as it should. Any ideas?

In reply to Switch.pm Regular Expression matches getting clobbered? by AxleUK

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