Re: Need match character help

On 05/20/2018 04:16 PM, yary wrote: PRM's suggestion was "/inverting the entire regex -- i.e., instead of matching finding things that do match, exclude the things that don't ... use !~~ or some similar logic to get the strings wanted/" which IMO is an excellent idea. Your implementation didn't

Re: Need match character help

PRM's suggestion was "*inverting the entire regex -- i.e., instead of matching finding things that do match, exclude the things that don't ... use !~~ or some similar logic to get the strings wanted*" which IMO is an excellent idea. Your implementation didn't take the inversion into account- try th

Re: Need match character help

On 05/20/2018 03:14 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 03:02:34PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 05/20/2018 10:40 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 03:28:20PM +0200, Timo Paulssen wrote: On 18/05/18 13:30, The Sidhekin wrote:   / ^ <[d..z]>* $/ That'

Re: Need match character help

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 03:02:34PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 05/20/2018 10:40 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 03:28:20PM +0200, Timo Paulssen wrote: > > > On 18/05/18 13:30, The Sidhekin wrote: > > > > > > > >   / ^ <[d..z]>* $/ > > > > > > That's pretty good! Put

Re: Need match character help

On 05/20/2018 10:40 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 03:28:20PM +0200, Timo Paulssen wrote: On 18/05/18 13:30, The Sidhekin wrote:   / ^ <[d..z]>* $/ That's pretty good! Putting the beginning-of-string anchor ^ anywhere but the very start is surely an advanced move :)

Re: Need match character help

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 03:28:20PM +0200, Timo Paulssen wrote: > On 18/05/18 13:30, The Sidhekin wrote: > > > >   / ^ <[d..z]>* $/ > > That's pretty good! Putting the beginning-of-string anchor ^ anywhere > but the very start is surely an advanced move :) FWIW, sometimes I think it's worth invert

Re: Need match character help

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:32 PM, ToddAndMargo > wrote: On 05/18/2018 01:22 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: To match particular characters. that should have been To match particular characters or phrases I am using "phrase" here in the English

Re: Need match character help

On 05/18/2018 01:22 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: To match particular characters. that should have been To match particular characters or phrases I am using "phrase" here in the English language meaning, not the programming meaning

Re: Need match character help

On 05/15/2018 07:05 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote: On 15/05/18 13:49, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, This should be a "no".  What am I doing wrong? $ perl6 -e 'my $x="rd"; if $x~~/<[rc]+[a]+[b]+[.]>/ {say "yes"}else{say "no"}' yes Many thanks, -T what you've put in your regex here is a character cl

Re: Need match character help

On 05/18/2018 04:30 AM, The Sidhekin wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Timo Paulssen > wrote: character classes are fundamentally the wrong thing for "phrases", since they describe only a character.   You were right the first time. Your current

Re: Need match character help

On 18/05/18 05:02, Norman Gaywood wrote: > One question I have is what is the first | for? It was probably easy to miss, but the explanation was in the first mail I wrote. Feel free to reply again if you have more questions about this point, though. >> * you are allowed to put a | not only

Re: Need match character help

On 18/05/18 13:30, The Sidhekin wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Timo Paulssen > wrote: > > character classes are fundamentally the wrong thing for "phrases", > since they describe only a character. > > >   You were right the first time. I'm not sure wha

Re: Need match character help

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Timo Paulssen wrote: > character classes are fundamentally the wrong thing for "phrases", since > they describe only a character. > You were right the first time. > Your current regex (before changing [gm] to ["gm"]) was expressing "from > the start of the s

Re: Need match character help

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

Re: Need match character help

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

Re: Need match character help

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

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"} Repe

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 subtract [gm] from [d..z] like

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 "g"

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: Need match character help

On 05/15/2018 07:05 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote: On 15/05/18 13:49, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, This should be a "no".  What am I doing wrong? $ perl6 -e 'my $x="rd"; if $x~~/<[rc]+[a]+[b]+[.]>/ {say "yes"}else{say "no"}' yes Many thanks, -T what you've put in your regex here is a character cl

Re: Need match character help

On 05/15/2018 07:06 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote: On 15/05/18 14:03, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 05/15/2018 04:49 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, This should be a "no".  What am I doing wrong? $ perl6 -e 'my $x="rd"; if $x~~/<[rc]+[a]+[b]+[.]>/ {say "yes"}else{say "no"}' yes Many thanks, -T And how

Re: Need match character help

On 15/05/18 14:03, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 05/15/2018 04:49 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> This should be a "no".  What am I doing wrong? >> >> $ perl6 -e 'my $x="rd"; if $x~~/<[rc]+[a]+[b]+[.]>/ {say >> "yes"}else{say "no"}' >> yes >> >> >> Many thanks, >> -T > > And how do I turn this

Re: Need match character help

On 15/05/18 13:49, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > This should be a "no".  What am I doing wrong? > > $ perl6 -e 'my $x="rd"; if $x~~/<[rc]+[a]+[b]+[.]>/ {say > "yes"}else{say "no"}' > yes > > > Many thanks, > -T what you've put in your regex here is a character class combined of four individual

Re: Need match character help

On 05/15/2018 04:49 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, This should be a "no".  What am I doing wrong? $ perl6 -e 'my $x="rd"; if $x~~/<[rc]+[a]+[b]+[.]>/ {say "yes"}else{say "no"}' yes Many thanks, -T And how do I turn this into a yes. I am look for any instance of d through z $ perl6 -e '