[StevieG]

What do you want to see?

A regex is evaluated as an expression, like == and therefore the "result" is boolean in nature.

If you want to see what matched, there are special variables for successfull matches.

$& gets the part of the string that matched the regex

$` gets the part of the string before what matched

$' gets the part of the string after what matched


It might help tp see a larger context of what you are doing and what you want.