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>/;
-Scott
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