Re^4: Named Captures

Okay. That begins to make sense ;)

But, I discovered that I can get (sort of) what I was after by switching to %-

perl -wE"()='abcde' =~ m[(?<a>a)|(?<b>b)|(?<c>c)|(?<d>d)|(?<e>e)]g and
+ do{ say for keys %- }"
e
c
a
b
d
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Re^5: Named Captures by JavaFan (Canon) on Oct 06, 2010 at 15:02 UTC
Not quite. `() = 'abc' =~ /(?<a>a)\|(?<f>f)/ and do {say for keys %-}; __END__ a f` [download] %- will have a key for every named capture in the pattern, whether that capture was involved in the match or not.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Named Captures by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 06, 2010 at 15:12 UTC
Yes. Hence the "sort of". For my purpose, I just needed to ensure that lots of things got captured, I was never going to do anything with them. I was trying to heavily exercise both named captures and alternations in the hope of reproducing a memory leak.	[reply]