Reuse capture


you can also reuse the matches within the regex Let's see an example (based on the perl 6 book) to try to find repeated words:

examples/regex2/reuse_capture.p6
use v6;

my $s = 'The elvish brown fox jumped over the the lazy dog';
if $s ~~ m/ (\w+) \W+ $0 / {
	say $/[0];
}
# this will print an 'e' which is not what we wanted



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