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As far as I understand the debugger, both expressions are evaluated in list context.

The first expression simply returns 1 for success and ~~I assume 0~~ an empty list for failure; so it's a single boolean result in list context.

The second expression has capturing parantheses, which (in list context) produces a list of captured results. As your (p)* could not be matched, there is no captured value for (p), so it returns a list with one element: undef.

That's my attempt to explain it. I am sure there are others who can explain it more detailed and accurately and even show some insight into the internals ...

  DB<4> x "24-06" =~ /\d+-\d+/ 
0  1
  DB<5> x "24-06" =~ /\d+-\d+failure/
  empty array
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fixed assumption upon failed regex match, added code example, some rephrasing

In reply to Re^2: Regexp problem by linuxer
in thread Regexp problem by agaved

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