Re^2: While two conditions

It looks like it could be something for me, BUT - excuse my ignorance - waht kind of sintax is this:

my $query = qr{
    (?<M>monk)
    (?(<M>)(?{do_something_different()}))
    |
    (?<P>perl)
    (?(<P>)(?{do_something()}))
}x;
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With perl 5.8.9 it just doesn't work

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Re^3: While two conditions by Anonymous Monk on May 02, 2012 at 06:40 UTC
With perl 5.8.9 it just doesn't work That is the kind of syntax it is :) 5.8.x is antique and unsupported :) Welcome to the future :) 595-Named Capture Buffers, perlre#(?<NAME>pattern)	[reply]