[Melbourne-pm] named regexp matches ...

Malcolm Herbert melbourne-pm at mjch.net
Tue Jun 21 20:41:52 PDT 2011


OK, thanks - a bit later version than I was hoping ... might have to do
it the boring old skool way ... :)

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:00 +1000, "David Warring"
<david.warring at gmail.com> wrote:
> Malcolm,
> I think this came in with the work on named captures re-written regex
> engine
> in 5.10.0.
> 
> This variation is not clearly mentioned in the release notes (perldoc
> perl5100delta), but is documented in
> http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RGARCIA/perl-5.10.0/pod/perlre.pod.
> 
> - David
> 
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Malcolm Herbert
> <melbourne-pm at mjch.net>wrote:
> 
> > With which version did (?P<name>.*) get added to Perl's regular
> > expression engine?  I have 5.8.7 on some hosts which doesn't have it,
> > but am looking for the earliest version that does ...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Malcolm
> >
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