On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
: 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
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 objec
Brent Dax asked:
> Will that handle captures correctly?
I believe so. Each (successful) time through the loop we cache
a reference to the candidate's match object, which will successfully
have stored all the captures from the candidate's matching.
Then we reinstate the best candidate, by bindin
