A grammar to provide substitution

2018-08-28 Thread Patrick Spek via perl6-users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, I'm trying to substitute parts of a string, and thought this might be a good use of a grammar. Sadly, grammars aren't my strong suit, so I thought I'd ask the wider community for help. Maybe you guys know an even better solution than using

Re: A grammar to provide substitution

2018-08-28 Thread Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users
Hi Patrick, for note that this codeline: my Str $input = "Here be a $(placeholder), for $(purpose) purposes."; will not compile because Perl will try to interpolate $(placeholder) and $(purpose) as vairables that have not been declared. You need to use non interpolating quotes: my Str $input

Fwd: A grammar to provide substitution

2018-08-28 Thread yary
Oops, forgot to hit "reply-all" this morning... similar answer to Laurent's with slightly different implementation. -y -- Forwarded message - From: yary Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:43 AM Subject: Re: A grammar to provide substitution this is simple enough to not require a