Re: contains question

2017-06-12 Thread Will Coleda
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: >> On 12 Jun 2017, at 22:04, Will Coleda wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Francesco Rivetti wrote: >>> if you can: >>> >>> $s ~~ "foo" >>> $s ~~ /foo/ >>> >>> then wouldn't be

Re: contains question

2017-06-12 Thread Will Coleda
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Francesco Rivetti wrote: > if you can: > > $s ~~ "foo" > $s ~~ /foo/ > > then wouldn't be good to have also: > > $s.contains("foo"); > $s.contains(/foo/); The latter is currently available as: > "foobar".match(/'foo'/); ｢foo｣ > IOW, overload

Re: contains question

2017-06-12 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 06/12/2017 01:42 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: On 12 Jun 2017, at 01:27, ToddAndMargo wrote: perl6 -e 'my $x = "\t"; if $x !~~ /<[A..Z a..z 0..9]>/ {say "out"} else {say "in"}' Would this be easier to do with $x.contains? Or would it be too worky? .contains

Re: contains question

2017-06-12 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
Thinking about this... > On 12 Jun 2017, at 11:17, Francesco Rivetti wrote: > > if you can: > > $s ~~ "foo" > $s ~~ /foo/ > > then wouldn't be good to have also: > > $s.contains("foo"); > $s.contains(/foo/); > > IOW, overload .contains() with Str and Regex > > F > > On

Re: contains question

2017-06-12 Thread Francesco Rivetti
if you can: $s ~~ "foo" $s ~~ /foo/ then wouldn't be good to have also: $s.contains("foo"); $s.contains(/foo/); IOW, overload .contains() with Str and Regex F On 06/12/2017 10:42 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: On 12 Jun 2017, at 01:27, ToddAndMargo wrote: perl6 -e

Re: contains question

2017-06-12 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 12 Jun 2017, at 01:27, ToddAndMargo wrote: > perl6 -e 'my $x = "\t"; if $x !~~ /<[A..Z a..z 0..9]>/ {say "out"} else {say > "in"}' > > Would this be easier to do with $x.contains? Or would it > be too worky? .contains only takes a *single string* to look up. So