use strict;
my $str = 'foo ---foo-- abc.foo.def 123(foo)456
_foo_ (_foo_)
foofooo foo_foo
___foo___
xxx_foo_zzzz xxxfoozzz
0000 foo_
9999 _foo...
foo_abc cba_foo
a foo_ _foo bar';
my $regex = qr/\bfoo\b|_foo_/p;
if ( $str =~ /$regex/g ) {
print "Whole match is ${^MATCH} and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[0] and \$+[0]\n";
# print "Capture Group 1 is $1 and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[1] and \$+[1]\n";
# print "Capture Group 2 is $2 ... and so on\n";
}
# ${^POSTMATCH} and ${^PREMATCH} are also available with the use of '/p'
# Named capture groups can be called via $+{name}
Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Perl, please visit: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html