Re^2: Regex curly bracket ambiguity

Thank you that was incredibly helpful.

so now that I have regular brackets around (?:$match); what 
do I do if I want to capture the whole thing?

eg with:
m/((?:$match){$repeat})/

will $1 give me everything or just $match back?

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Re^3: Regex curly bracket ambiguity by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Jun 21, 2007 at 18:11 UTC
`$1` will give you the whole match. `(?:)` is a non-capturing grouping, so it does not affect `$1`, etc. If you used regular parens around `$match`, it would be returned in `$2`. Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Regex curly bracket ambiguity by ysth (Canon) on Jun 21, 2007 at 18:23 UTC
If you used regular parens around $match, it would be returned in $2. That is, the last repetition would be returned in $2: `$ perl -w $match = "ab+"; $string = "fooababbabbbar"; $string =~ /(($match){3})/ && print "\$1: $1 \$2: $2\n"; __END__ $1: ababbabbb $2: abbb` [download]	[reply] [d/l]