Re: where is $1 stored ?

rajarshi das am Freitag, 10. Juni 2005 07.10:
> Hi,
> I run this on z/OS and perl-5.8.6.
>
> $a = 'a';

	my $a='a';

> if ($a =~ /A/i)
> {
>   print "match";

will print "match"

>   print "$1";

	print $1;  # "" unneeded

will print nothing

> }
>
> Is the value in $1 stored in a struct SV ? Or how else
> is it stored ?

It is not stored in your code. It would have been stored if your regex looked 
like $a =~ /(A)/i (note the parens).

> Where exactly in the perl code is the value of $1 set?

perldoc perlrequick
perldoc perlretut
perldoc perlre



joe