Nice RE tutorial :-)
/^ [ | <[d..z]-[g]> | g ]* $/
One question I have is what is the first | for?
On Thu, 17 May 2018 at 21:10, Timo Paulssen wrote:
> The description perhaps doesn't point out clearly enough: the reason why
> the stuff inside the [ ] will match any amount of times is only the
Hi,
I'm trying to use perl6-debug-m for doing Regex and Grammar Debugging.
When I use Rakudo version 2016.10 , it's works fine. I get the behaviour which
is described at https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/a-perl-6-debugger/
in section "Regex and Grammar Debugging". I can easily see
The description perhaps doesn't point out clearly enough: the reason why
the stuff inside the [ ] will match any amount of times is only the * at
the end, the [ ] is only there because otherwise the regex would instead
match something you didn't mean at all. If you're interested, read on
for an exp
character classes are fundamentally the wrong thing for "phrases", since
they describe only a character.
Your current regex (before changing [gm] to ["gm"]) was expressing "from
the start of the string, there's any amount of characters d through z
(but neither g nor m) and then the end of the stri
