Re: perl6-regex: retaining $/.pos after an unsuccesful match without a temporary variable?

2019-08-19 Thread William Michels via perl6-users
Hi Aureliano, It's a good question. The short answer is I haven't had any memory problems with the toy examples so far, but I haven't scaled up the regex to know how it behaves when testing for hundreds (or thousands) of matches. I suppose there might be some way to restrict array values to Int-onl

Re: perl6-regex: retaining $/.pos after an unsuccesful match without a temporary variable?

2019-08-19 Thread yary
If you do make this a grammar, I think there's more than one way to have " {@a.push($/.pos)}/" fire after every match, and not repeat that code snippit on each rule... keep that in mind as a goal... -y On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 7:13 AM William Michels via perl6-users wrote: > > Thanks to Brad Gilb

Re: perl6-regex: retaining $/.pos after an unsuccesful match without a temporary variable?

2019-08-19 Thread William Michels via perl6-users
Thanks to Brad Gilbert's code contribution in this thread, I re-wrote a small snippet of his code (code that incrementally checks a series of regex matches), to have it return the last position of each match. Testing with three 'matches' and one 'willnotmatch' returns three positional values, as ex

Re: perl6-regex: retaining $/.pos after an unsuccesful match without a temporary variable?

2019-08-19 Thread Patrick Spek via perl6-users
On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 13:45:27 -0300 Aureliano Guedes wrote: > Even being another language, Perl6 should be inheriting Perl5's > regexes or even improving it not making it uglier and harder. > > Or I'm seeing how to use it in an easy way. Also, dunno if there is > some GOOD documentation to Perl6