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Perl is full of neat one-liners. You can get string regex matches right into an array. It is best shown with example:

To make it interesting let's take some HTML-like markup:

and capture name attribute's values to an array:

As you see the actual capture happens in the middle of regex: "(.+?)", and /g forces the match to repeat over and over.

If we spice up the code with little bit of data dumping:

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(\@names);

we'll observe

$VAR1 = [
 'Alice',
 'Bob',
 'Eve'
 ];