Re: Finding match offsets of named captures in 5.10 regex

[JavaFan]

in reply to Finding match offsets of named captures in 5.10 regex

Every named capture is numbered as well. So if you have a capture called 'foo', and it's the third capture, you find the offsets in $- [2] and $+ [2]. There isn't a hash with the indexes.

[JadeNB]

It seems that the whole point of using named captures is not wanting to have to keep track of the position of those captures, so maybe this way of getting at it isn't so useful. Is there any programmatic way to translate from named captures to the corresponding numbers?