On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 11:20:03AM -0000, mark  sony wrote:
> $_ = "The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
>   /the (\S+)(?{ $color = $^N }) (\S+)(?{ $animal = $^N })/i;
>   print "color = $color, animal = $animal\n";
> 
> When I run the program it gives :color = , animal =
> 
> I took it from this link :
> http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlre.html
                             ^^^^^
$^N is new in 5.8.0.

In general, it's less frustrating to read the documentation
that comes with *your* version of Perl.

    % perl -v
    % perldoc perlre
    % perldoc perlvar

In this case you can probably use $+ instead.

-- 
Steve

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