Match regex and assign results in single line of code

Question

I want to be able to do a regex match on a variable and assign the results to the variable itself. What is the best way to do it?

I want to essentially combine lines 2 a

Answer 1

I do this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$target = "n: 123";
my ($target) = $target =~ /n:\s*(\d+)/g;
print $target; # the var $target now is "123"