I don't use `match` often, so I get the `match(str, regex)` order wrong. So yeah, it would be nice if gawk automatically provided the capture groups via some sp

I don't use `match` often, so I get the `match(str, regex)` order wrong. So yeah, it would be nice if gawk automatically provided the capture groups via some special variable. Not really verbose for this particular example though: $ echo 'foo=42' | awk 'match($0, /foo=([0-9]+)/, m){print m[1]}' 42 $ echo 'foo=42' | perl -nE 'if (/foo=([0-9]+)/) { say $1 }' 42 # TIMTOWTDI $ echo 'foo=42' | perl -nE 'say $1 if /foo=([0-9]+)/' 42