From: Damian Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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No. That's my point. I want to match BANG followed by maximal whitespace
followed by another BANG. But a line-by-line filter fails dismally if that
maximal whitespace contains a newline.
Admittedly this particular example is contrived for
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:12:17AM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Given this level of complexity, it's perhaps not surprising that source
code filtering is not commonly used.
The both times I've attempted to use Filter::Util::Call, I've wound up
reverting to Filter::Util::Exec and doing
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=head1 TITLE
Provide a standard module to simplify the creation of source filters
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 20 September 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 264
