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Me too. In production code, I almost never use the regex variables except in a s///. Note that it is pretty easy to combine this with checking for successful match: 
my ($foo, $bar);
unless (($foo, $bar) = $data =~ $pattern) {
   die "horribly!";
}
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Re^3: Passing globals and magic variables safely
by ihb (Deacon) on Apr 10, 2005 at 23:23 UTC

    I usually just go 

    my ($foo, $bar) = $data =~ /$pattern/
    or die "horribly!";

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    ihb

    See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read!

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