Thanks, that form does what I want-- I don't see how I could've understood that from the docs, though. For example, I don't see any place where the :match adverb is mentioned for either the method or routine form of comb.
On 11/10/19, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> wrote: > dd "foobar".comb(/./, :g, :match); > (｢f｣ ｢o｣ ｢o｣ ｢b｣ ｢a｣ ｢r｣) > >> On 10 Nov 2019, at 23:46, Joseph Brenner <doom...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Can someone give me an example of how to use the comb routine to >> return a list of match objects? >> >> The documentation here: >> >> https://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#routine_comb >> >> Mentions a boolean option to get match objects: >> >>> If $matcher is a Regex, each Match object is >>> converted to a Str, unless $match is set. >> >> I gather that I must be reading this signature >> wrong somehow, I can't get it to work: >> >>> multi sub comb(Regex:D $matcher, Str:D $input, $limit = Inf, Bool >>> :$match) >> >> I keep trying variations of things like this: >> >> my @hits = comb(m/$search_pattern/, $chunk, 100, True); >
