Hello, In the past few days I've been converting some "incremental parsing"-regex code from perl 5 to perl 6 (I haven't not touched grammars, yet...)
In Perl 5 I often used the /g and /c modifiers so that the following snippet of code doesn't die: # perl5 my $test = " foo bar"; die unless $test =~ /^\s+/g; die unless $test =~ /\Gfoo\s+/g; die if $test =~ /\Gwillnotmatch/gc; # ...what is the equivalent of the 'c' modifier in Perl 6? die unless $test =~ /\Gbar/g; say pos $test; # yields "13" I managed to translate such code in Perl 6, by using the "m:p/.../" regex, When I anticipate an unsuccessful match then I must temporarily store $/.pos and provide it to the next regex (e.g. "m:p($P)//"), so it seems, That works.... but it riddles my current solutions with "$P = $/.pos;" assignments. Is there a way to retain this match like in Perl 5? Is there a better way in general? ... perhaps it's time to look into grammars? ;) Thanks! Regards, Raymond Dresens.