The way to add `:i` to regex without using `m` is to include it inside
of the regex `/:i abcdef/`
On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:30 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> Okay, I am pretty sure there are no copyrights here.
>
> I had a problem where I had to read through a YUGE log file and
> pick out those entries with a particular name in it. Problem"
> it was the same name but three different capitalizations and
> the the capitalization was a moving target. I couldn't count
> on it staying the same.
>
> and `i/test/` or `:i/test/` did not work.
>
> One of the guys helped me out with this on the chat line.
> `m:i/test/` did the trick, and forgave me for not actually
> doing a match. He said one of the benefits of "m" was that
> it allows for more things like "i" to be included
>
> Here is a test one liner:
>
> $ perl6 -e 'my $x="abcDEF"; if ( $x ~~ m:i/abcdef/ ) { say "yes";} else {
> say "no";}'
>
> yes
>
>
> -T
>
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