Dear David Waring, Thank you for your example. It works and I understand it.
I take it from your example that with a predefined regex pattern one may only be able to get ONE capture. I want to use a predefined pattern with more than one capture in an s///; form, like what you've written (which implicitly captures the whole of the pattern) but, for example, with two captures: my $x= " (\W) ion (<[\d]>) dPoint "; my $s= "+ion3dPoint"; $s ~~ s/<$x>)/Point$1d$0/; say $s; OUTPUT Point3d+ (I'm not using the predefined pattern for "compiled" performance, but to reduce error-prone redundancy in my program.) Any ideas? Peter Schwenn P.S. In future I will use the IRC or the perl6-user mailing list for non- bugs. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:33 PM, David Warring via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I've tried the following on rakudo: > > $ perl6 -e'my $x=/bb|dd/; my $s = "addc"; $s ~~ s/<$x>/ZXZ/; say $s' > aZXZc > > Which is working. > David
