in reply to Re: Explaining =~ and .= operators
in thread Explaining =~ and .= operators

=~ can also be used in list context to obtain the list of captures: $1, $2, etc.

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Re^3: Explaining =~ and .= operators
by revdiablo (Prior) on Apr 04, 2006 at 16:02 UTC

    Not to be overly nitpicky, but that behavior is from the m// operator, not =~. I think this distinction is important to keep in mind, because =~ can be used with m//, s/// and tr///, which all have different behaviour.

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