Regex surprises

[Clifton Wood]

Hi Brian,

I would think this would become pretty easy. Consider:

sub MAIN ( $replacement, :$x, :$y ) {
  my regex x {<{ $x }> }
  my regex y { <{$y}> }

  S:g! <x> ! <{ $replacemement }> ! if $x;
  S:g! <y> ! <{ $replacement }>      ! if $y
}

Is this what you are looking for or did I miss something?

> &gt; &gt; &gt; ... &gt; &gt; &gt; "y" ~~ /(x)|(y)/ I would probably take 
> advantage of the composability of Raku regexes, and do something like my 
> regex x { x } my regex y { y } and then use /  |  / and check for $ or $ e.g. 
> this becomes S:g[|] = $ ?? x-replacement !! y-replacement