Note! This site is about Perl 6.
If you are looking for a solution for Perl 5, please check out the Perl 5 tutorial.
but it can be used in other ways as well
using parentheses around parts of the regex
will capture those parts:
tutorial/regex2/match_object_capture.p6
use v6;
my $phone = "054-1234567";
if $phone ~~ m/ (\d+) \- (\d+) / {
say "prefix: $/[0]";
say "number: $/[1]";
say "full match: $/";
}
the matches are also available as $0, $1, ...
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