Re^2: Regex capture consumed by non-capturing match

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I always prefer the form:

my ($foo, $bar) = ($test =~ /(capt-pat-1)...(capt-pat-2)/);

Doesn't get clobbered and is quite readable I think.

-David.

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Re^3: Regex capture consumed by non-capturing match by ribasushi (Pilgrim) on Jul 20, 2007 at 15:55 UTC
Yes, except that it is quite hard to write an if that checks if the match succeeded at all. I omitted this in the example, but in the real code this was the case: `if ($string =~ /re/) { my ($a, $b, $c) = trim_func ($1, $2, $3); }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Regex capture consumed by non-capturing match by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 20, 2007 at 16:29 UTC
Not so. `if (my @matches = $string =~ /re/) { my ($a, $b, $c) = trim_func(@matches); }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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