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The parentheses provide list context, in which a pattern match returns the captured parts.  In scalar context, the return value is just true/false depending on whether the regex matched.

See perlop.

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Re^4: Substring consisting of all the characters until "character X"?
by davies (Monsignor) on Mar 14, 2011 at 12:50 UTC

    I didn't understand the documentation you pointed me to, but I understood your explanation perfectly! Thanks.

    Regards,

    John Davies

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