Matt skribis 2005-04-22 14:20 (-0400): > Well why can't you define the functions like so:
Because a URI scheme ends in :. It http: followed by anything other than // should fail because it is invalid, not fall back to file handling. IFF you're handling URIs. > multi sub open ($u of Str where /^mailto:\/\//, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > returns > Handle {...} Well, it's mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], not mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Also, I don't know much about rules with regex yet, but could you do > something like... > multi sub open ($u of Str where /<protocol(file)>/, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > returns > Handle {...} > Where < <protocol(file)> > expands to < file:// > Yes, but it's probably easier to just use a hash: %protocol<file>. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html
