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in thread Regex curly bracket ambiguity

$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.
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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

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