hello David,
A Perl 6 equivalent is:
token gecos { - [':']* }
thanks for those explainations. jnthn gave those yesterday on the
friendly #perl6 freenode channel and i have to admit i'm not confortable
with the backtracking part.
Anyway: i got the syntax thing and finished the program.
Hi all,
On 13.07.2014 00:15, David Warring wrote:
Hi Marc,
This looks like a Perl 5 complementary character match: [^:]*
But it means something quite different in Perl6. From S05
http://perlcabal.org/syn/S05.html
Bracket rationalization
hello,
using perl6 version 2014.04 built on MoarVM version 2014.04
i'm trying to write a grammar to parse the result of a `getent passwd`
but when i test the gecos (which could be empty), i fall into a loop.
the pb appears whenever i try to match something that can be empty using
the *
Hi Marc,
This looks like a Perl 5 complementary character match: [^:]*
But it means something quite different in Perl6. From S05
http://perlcabal.org/syn/S05.html
Bracket rationalization
http://perlcabal.org/syn/S05.html#Bracket_rationalization [ ... ] is no
longer a character class. It now
