Dear monks,

There is something I am not too sure about and I hope you can give me some advice on ...
Right now I am writing something in which I use similar statements as the following ones:

my ($value1,$value2)=("something","whatever");
my ($var1,$var2) = ($1,$2) if ($value1=~/something/ && $value2=~/(what
+)(ever)/);

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I have the feeling that it is not very okay to use two regex's while using i.e. the $1,$2...
variables of one of them. In this case the $1 and $2 variables, come from the 2nd regex,
but are there similar situations in which this can cause trouble ? Or could this be some-
thing that might change in future Perl releases ? In other words, I was wondering whether
this is a safe thing to do.

Any help, advice, commentary or whatever is very welcome and highly appreciated
... et cetera .... Thanks ! ;-)

Romani Ite Domum

In reply to Using multiple regex's by leons

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