List assignment, also another good modification overlooked here. The difference between them being that undefined scalars are created, possibly unnecessarily, before each regexp test. Where in scalar assignment the match will have been tested before scalars are created. No biggie, but how would we go about making comparisons for such details? I would like to think on.

I did consider amending toothpicks in the original regexp. But for time and the regexp was already dealt with by first response. I did not mind for my substitution as was a very short substition.

Pipe is syntactically correct, but due to it's general usage I would probably pick a different symbol. Each to their own here.

In reply to Re^3: Not able to capture information by Don Coyote
in thread Not able to capture information by Anonymous Monk

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