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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Perl-Users Digest #651
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Date: 11 Mar 91 15:40:37 GMT
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From the keyboard of jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone):
:we need another (what, ANOTHER?) "special variable" to hold the contents
:of a regexp pattern - $1 .. $9 would, like Marc said, hold the first 9
:()'s, but you could shift and unshift the variable to make $1 .. $9
:change.
:
:how about @PAT ? 

I think that would be too much copying.  Let the programmer assign
the pattern match to an array if they want, but don't force all those
extra copies on everyone.

--tom