hello David, > A Perl 6 equivalent is: > token gecos { <- [':']>* }
thanks for those explainations. jnthn gave those yesterday on the friendly #perl6 freenode channel and i have to admit i'm not confortable with the backtracking part. Anyway: i got the syntax thing and finished the program. thanks everyone. -- Marc Chantreux (eiro on github and freenode) http://eiro.github.com/ http://eiro.github.com/atom.xml "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" -- Abraham Lincoln