On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 03:48:25PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: > But the most straightforward way to match longest is probably to use
: > :any to get a superposition of matches, and then pull out the longest
: > match.
:
: So, does :any return a list of the substrings that matched or a list
: of match objects? Or some polymorhpic thing that can be either?
: Would something like this work?
:
: rule max ($pat) {
: $0 := {
: reduce { length $^a > length $^b ?? $^a :: $^b } <:a $pat>;
: }
: }
:
: "bacamus" =~ m/<max b.*a | b.*s>/;
Yeah, something like that. Could well be a longest() builtin, or
close-to-builtin, of course.
Larry
