regex backreference array

$1 $2 $3 ... in an array?

[physics]

I'm looking for an array of $1 and $2 and $3...
From what I understand @- holds the starting points of the matches in $-[0] and @+ holds the ending points. So from there I can get all of the matches. But is there a simpler way, i.e. a @? that holds all the regex matches? I want to loop over them and in this app one does not know ahead of time how many () there will be in the regex.

[perl_diver]

say you have:

$string = '1234 abcdef 123abc 123e 346 abcd 123abc 345 ghte 234gvd gbt345 6453 tty';

you want to get all the digit only sequences from the string:

@array_of_matches = $string =~ /\b(\d+)\b/g;

loop through @array_of_matches to see what you got:

for (@array_of_matches) { 
 print "$_\n"; 
} 

$array_of_matches[0] is the first element in the array corresponding to the fist pattern match returned from the regexp: 1234

$array_of_matches[-1] is the last match: 6453

which is the same as:

$array_of_matches[$#array_of_matches]

maybe you can give a better idea of what you are trying to match and store in an array.

[physics]

Thanks perl_diver, that looks like just what I need.