I am having a hard time figuring out the earliest version of perl where non-capturing parentheses are supported in regex patterns?
Can I take this feature for granted for all versions of Perl5?
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I dug out Perl 5.000 from my archive CDs. It includes
So it’s in all versions of Perl 5. (It’s definitely not in Perl 4 or earlier.)