Inside the Regex Engine

Kind people,

As a perl weenie, I'm used to being able to do things with regexes
like

$text =~ s/(foo|bar|baz)/NO UNIX WEENIES HERE/;
$got_it = $1;

While PL/Perl is great, it's not available everywhere, and I'd like to
be able to grab atoms from a regex match in, say, a SELECT. Is there
some way to get access to them?

TIA for any pointers on this :)

Cheers,
D
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