Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
How do C and C differ with respect to backtracking? For instance,
foobar ~~ / [a..z]+ [ ... ] /;
Both sides of the C happen in parallel, so I would guess that they
both match foo then stop. Please correct me if that's wrong.
As written, this match would
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:25:12PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
: Were we using the procedural conjunction:
:
: foobar ~~ / [a..z]+ [ ... ] /;
:
: I would guess that the LHS matches as much as it can (foobar), then
: the RHS matches foo [...and then backtracks the LHS until a
:
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 12:37 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
Yow. ICATBW.
The what now?
-'f
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:37:37PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:25:12PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
: On a somewhat similar question, what happens with a pattern
: such as
:
: foobar ~~ / foo.+? | fooba /
:
: The LHS initially matches foob, but with
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:49:42PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:02:19PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
: : I agree. One thought I had was that perhaps non-greedy matching
: : could also terminate the token prefix.
:
: Well, that's more or less arguing it the other way.
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:02:19PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
: I agree. One thought I had was that perhaps non-greedy matching
: could also terminate the token prefix.
Well, that's more or less arguing it the other way. It kind of assumes
your fooba-ish arguments are smart enough to test
