At 10:37 PM -0700 12/10/02, Luke Palmer wrote:
Why use regexen when you can just use junctions?my $foos = 'foo' ~ any(0..9) ~ any(0..9); ... We have a I<powerful> language on our hands, people.
Agreed, but this solution doesn't work well for all cases. For example, what if I want to iterate through the values foo000001 .. foo999999, breaking out when some limit condition is reached. Generating and sorting the entire list seems a bit wasteful... -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection
