Perl 5.10 Regex - Named capture variables

[prasadbabu]

Hi Monks,
Today when I was studying Perl 5.10 regex, I came across following problem.
When I matched the capture pattern in named variable, I printed it after substitution, but it was not printing. when I print the same immediately after the expression, it works. Where am I going wrong? So can't we use the %+ anywhere in program, just like normal hash?

use feature 'say';

$test = 'abc1234asf';

$test =~ /(?<one>\w{4})(?<two>\w{4})/;

#say 'one:', $+{one};            #works
#say 'two:', $+{two};

$test =~ s/(?<three>\w{4})(?<four>\w{4})/$+{four}$+{three}/;

say 'one:', $+{one};            #NOT works
say 'two:', $+{two};
say;
say 'three:', $+{three};
say 'four:', $+{four};
say;
say 'output:', $test;

OUTPUT:
-------

one:
two:

three:abc1
four:234a

output:234aabc1sf

[kyle]

This is the behavior that I'd expect. Specifically, %+ gets cleared before each regexp execution, so any matches you got before will not be carried over. This is equally true of capture variables $1, $2, etc.

[moritz]

%+ is reset by a pattern match just like @+ and @_ are.

%+ isn't a normal hash either, it's magically tied to the regex engine ;-)