On 30 Aug 2000 02:13:38 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Replace =~, !~, m//, s///, and tr// with match(), subst(), and trade()
Why?
What's next, replace the regex syntax with something that more closely
ressembles the rest of Perl?
Regexes are a language within the language. And not a tiny
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:47:24 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
One thing to remember is that regex's are already used in a number of
functions:
@results = grep /^VAR=\w+/, @values;
You are being mislead. You might just as well say that length() is being
used in other functions:
@results =
I'm opposed to an obligation to replace m// and s///. I won't mind the
ability to give a prototype of "regex" to functions, or even
*additional* functions, match and subst.
As the RFC basically proposes. The idea is that s///, tr///, and m//
would stay, seemingly unchanged. But they'd
In RFC 72, Peter Heslin gives this example:
:Imagine a very long input string containing data such as this:
:
:... GCAAGAATTGAACTGTAG ...
:
:If you want to match text that matches /GA+C/, but not when it
:follows /G+A+T+/, you cannot at present do so easily.
I haven't tried to work it out
