Perl 6 is doing the right thing. The dot matches any character. In this case, matching the final ':'. The next bit of the regex says the cursor has to be after 1:, and indeed, after matching the ':' the cursor is after '1:', so the substitution succeeds.
Maybe you want s/<?after '1:'>/x/ to append 'x' after '1:' ? Or s/<?after '1:'>./x/ to replace whatever is after '1:' with 'x' ? -y On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 3:26 AM Sean McAfee <eef...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This seems like a bug, but I thought I'd ask here before reporting it. > > $_ = '1:'; > s/.<?after '1:'>/x/; > .say; > > This prints "1x". Is that what's supposed to happen somehow? I would have > thought that '1:' should only match a literal "1:", leaving nothing for the > dot to match. >
