Hi Peter, On 30.05.2014 22:39, Peter Schwenn wrote: > Dear Moritz, > > $txt ~~ s:g/ <!before System> \. Guid /.Moniker/; > > transforms (in $txt): System.Guid -> System.Moniker > > i.e. the match succeeds. So obviously I'm not understanding negative > look-ahead correctly. Where's there a good description of negative look > ahead.
The look-ahead looks *ahead*, that is, it matches because where the regex matches '.Guid', the next token isn't 'System'. So either write the look-ahead like this: $txt ~~ s:g/ <!before System> « \w+ \. <( Guid /Moniker/; (The <( limits where the substitution starts). or use a look-behind: s:g/ <!after 'System'> \. Guid /.Moniker/; For a general introduction into look-araound assertions (and many other regex topics) I can recommend "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl. It mostly uses Perl 5 regex syntax, but the concepts translate well to Perl 6. Cheers, Moritz
