Re: getting comb to return match objects

[Elizabeth Mattijsen]

dd "foobar".comb(/./, :g, :match);
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> On 10 Nov 2019, at 23:46, Joseph Brenner <doom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Can someone give me an example of how to use the comb routine to
> return a list of match objects?
> 
> The documentation here:
> 
> https://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#routine_comb
> 
> Mentions a boolean option to get match objects:
> 
>> If $matcher is a Regex, each Match object is
>> converted to a Str, unless $match is set.
> 
> I gather that I must be reading this signature
> wrong somehow, I can't get it to work:
> 
>> multi sub    comb(Regex:D $matcher, Str:D $input, $limit = Inf, Bool :$match)
> 
> I keep trying variations of things like this:
> 
>    my @hits = comb(m/$search_pattern/, $chunk, 100, True);