Re^2: Matching and making accesible an arbitrary number of subpatterns w/a regex?

Splitting on the colon, you say?

my $src_string = 'aaa:bbb:ccc:ddd:eee:';
my @results = split /:/, $src_string;
pop @results;
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Update: Oops, I missed the last line of the OP. Well, neither solution populates $1, $2, $3, so I guess neither answers the OP.

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