Re: Need match character help

Now I am getting silly. How would I exclude the phrase "gm"? $ p6 'if "def" ~~ /^<[d..z]-["gm"]>*$/ {say "y"} else {say "n"}' Potential difficulties: Quotes are not metacharacters in character classes at -e:1 --> if "def" ~~ /^<[d..z]-⏏["gm"]>*$/ {say "y"} else {say "n"}

Re: Need match character help

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Todd Chester > wrote: On 05/16/2018 07:58 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote: On 16/05/18 00:10, ToddAndMargo wrote: What would the syntax be for d..z, but not g or m? You can

Re: Need match character help

You need to be more careful with regexes (any regexes). Your character class matches if any character in the string matches, so 'd' satisfies it and the rest of the string is ignored. If you want to ensure *no* character matches, then say so: pyanfar Z$ 6 'if "dgm" ~~ /^<[d..z]-[gm]>*$/ {say "y"}

Re: Need match character help

On 05/16/2018 07:58 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote: On 16/05/18 00:10, ToddAndMargo wrote: What would the syntax be for d..z, but not g or m? You can subtract [gm] from [d..z] like this:     say "c" ~~ /<[d..z]-[gm]>/;     say "d" ~~ /<[d..z]-[gm]>/;     say "f" ~~ /<[d..z]-[gm]>/;     say

Re: Need match character help

On 16/05/18 00:10, ToddAndMargo wrote: > What would the syntax be for d..z, but not g or m? You can subtract [gm] from [d..z] like this:     say "c" ~~ /<[d..z]-[gm]>/;     say "d" ~~ /<[d..z]-[gm]>/;     say "f" ~~ /<[d..z]-[gm]>/;     say "g" ~~ /<[d..z]-[gm]>/;

Re: number of letters question

That is absolutely correct, thanks!