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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 3529 Volume: 11
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:09:03 -0700 (PDT)
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Perl-Users Digest Thu, 27 Oct 2011 Volume: 11 Number: 3529
Today's topics:
Re: picking up results of alternate captures? <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim>
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:11:18 +0100
From: bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim>
Subject: Re: picking up results of alternate captures?
Message-Id: <iPmdnddEqJPbszTTnZ2dnUVZ8hqdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>
Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> bugbear<bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> writes:
>> If I have a regular expression using alternation to pick up
>> various alteranatives, is there an easy way to pick up
>> the match that "fired" for use?
>
> $LAST_PAREN_MATCH
> $+ The text matched by the last bracket of the last
> successful search pattern. This is useful if you don't know
> which one of a set of alternative patterns matched.
> [perlvar(1)]
>
Ah! With suitable use of non capturing parens,
that will do JUST what I want. Thank you.
BugBear
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