Pretty much what it's telling you. Instead of the numbers in braces, it's
the ** operator with a range after it: \d ** 1..4
(Remember that spaces do nothing in a P6 regex, so you can use them for
readability or to separate the range from what follows, etc.)
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:56 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to convert this over from Perl5:
>
> P5:
> $dir_entry =~ /.*?(\d{1,4}\D\d{1,4}\D\d{1,4}).*${Extension}/;
>
> P6:
> $dir_entry ~~ m/.*?(\d{1,4}\D\d{1,4}\D\d{1,4}).*{$Extension}/;
>
>
> $ perl6 -c GetUpdates.pl6
> ===SORRY!===
> Unsupported use of {N,M} as general quantifier; in Perl 6 please use **
> N..M (or ** N..*)
> at /home/linuxutil/GetUpdates.pl6:425
> ------> $dir_entry ~~ m/.*?(\d{1,4}⏏\D\d{1,4}\D\d{1,4
> }).*{$Extension}/;
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>
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