On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Ryan Davis <[email protected]>wrote:

> The contents of successive groups matched in a successful pattern match.
> In "cat" =~/(c|a)(t|z)/, $1 will be set to “a” and $2 to “t”. THIS VARIABLE
> IS LOCAL TO THE CURRENT SCOPE. [r/o, thread]
>
>
Personally I love the Perl heritage stuff like this. But for someone coming
from a non-Perl background, damn that must seem pretty weird and surprising.

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