Re: 'split': differences between Perl5 and Perl6

http://doc.perl6.org/language/5to6-nutshell is worth checking; there's a table of regex/pattern translations there. On 2/27/16, James E Keenan wrote: > On 02/27/2016 08:38 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > >> >> >> [...] is what used to be (?:...), and <[...]> is what used to be

Re: 'split': differences between Perl5 and Perl6

On 02/27/2016 08:38 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: [...] is what used to be (?:...), and <[...]> is what used to be [...]. Regexes have changed a *lot*, and you will really need to learn how they work now; just hoping that things work just like perl 5 will not work. My apologies for being a

'split': differences between Perl5 and Perl6

I am trying to understand the differences in the way the 'split' function works between Perl5 and Perl6. Consider this string: # $str = q|This is a string to be split|; # Let's suppose I wish to split this string on the multi-character delimiter string 'tri'. The results are the