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BTW: couldn't find an array holding the values of $1,$2,... in the perldocs !?!

Probably not much help in this particular case (and you still need to loop to capture), but 5.10 offers the %+ and %- predefined hashes for named captures (see perlvar) in place of an array of all capture groups:

>perl -wMstrict -le "my $s = '12ab34cd56ef78'; my @pairs; push @pairs, [ $+{A}, $+{B} ] while $s =~ m{ (?<A>[[:alpha:]]) (?<B>[[:alpha:]]) }xmsg; use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \@pairs; " $VAR1 = [ [ 'a', 'b' ], [ 'c', 'd' ], [ 'e', 'f' ] ];

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Re^4: global regex returning a list of arrays?
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 20, 2010 at 21:28 UTC
    Probably not much help in this particular case...

    actually it's getting better now! :D

    ....it's possible to take the values of the hash!

     push @pairs, [ values %+ ] while $s =~ m{ (?<A>[[:alpha:]]) (?*[[:alpha:]]) }xmsg;

    unfortunately the hash is not set when the groupings are not named ... :(

    Cheers Rolf