On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 1:09 PM ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > > On 06/13/2018 11:06 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > On 06/13/2018 11:03 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > >> On 06/13/2018 11:00 AM, Larry Wall wrote: > > > $ p6 'my $x = "01.000.103.006.10"; $x ~~ s:g/«0+)>\d//; say "$x"' > > 1.0.103.6.10 > > Hi Larry, > > How did you get thee "«" character to appear? And > what does it mean? >
The way I type them is [compose] [<] [<], which is nice because their ASCII equivalent is << It means match a word boundary with the word being on the right side. > say 'ABC DEF ' ~~ m:g/ << . / (「A」 「D」) > say 'ABC DEF ' ~~ m:g/ >> . / (「 」 「 」)