in reply to Perl's POD's description of the use of capturing special variables.

What's unclear about the following in man perlre: 
   NOTE: failed matches in Perl do not reset the match vari-
   ables, which makes easier to write code that tests for a
   series of more specific cases and remembers the best
   match.

Abigail

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