From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2007-12-21T06:24:35+09:00
Subject: Re: named captures assigning to local variables

In article <S2445477AbXLTQsI/20071220164808Z+24367@swip003.ftl.affinity.com>,
  David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> writes:

> How about making the return value an array of the captured strings, or nil 
> if there was no match? 

Another idea is $~, which is a MatchData or nil.
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Tanaka Akira