Monks,

According to the docs for %- and %+ they both allow "access to the named capture buffers, should they exist, in the last successful match" and they differ in that %- "associates a reference to an array containing the list of values captured by all buffers with that name (should there be several of them)" and %+ does not.

Yet, as seen below, %+ does not report all of the captures. Am I misunderstanding something or is this buggy behavior?

Code: 
use Data::Dumper;
'12' =~ /
    (?<twelve>
        (?<one>1)
        (?<two>2)
    )
/x;
print "All accounted for:\n";
print Dumper(\%-);
print "Here too:\n";
print Dumper([$1, $2, $3]);
print "Where are one and two?\n";
print Dumper(\%+);

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Output: 
All accounted for:
$VAR1 = {
          'one' => [
                     '1'
                   ],
          'twelve' => [
                        '12'
                      ],
          'two' => [
                     '2'
                   ]
        };
Here too:
$VAR1 = [
          '12',
          '1',
          '2'
        ];
Where are one and two?
$VAR1 = {
          'twelve' => '12'
        };

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In reply to Inconsistent captures in %+ and %- by eff_i_g

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