On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:55:32 +1100 (EST), Damian Conway wrote:
Wouldn't this interact rather badly with the /gc option (which also leaves
Cpos set on failure)?
Yes.
The easy way out is disallow combining /gc wit h/z. But, since this
typically one of the applications it is aimed for, I should
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:19:47 +0100, Hugo wrote:
I think that involves
rewriting your /p example something like:
if (/^$pat$/z) {
print "found a complete match";
} elsif (defined pos) {
print "found a prefix match";
} else {
print "not a match";
}
Except that this isn't
Wouldn't this interact rather badly with the /gc option (which also leaves
Cpos set on failure)?
This question arose because I was trying to work out how one would write a
lexer with the new /z option, and it made my head ache ;-)
As you can see from the example code, the program flow
