Hi Bill, Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying.
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/2624 " FWIW, the :P5 supports a Perl 5 like syntax from X versions ago (probably about 5.8, I would say)." The features I need are in perl 5.10 which the :P5 adverb doesn't provide. Thanks, Paul On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 11:47 AM William Michels <w...@caa.columbia.edu> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I'm sorry, I don't understand. > > Are you saying you're using Inline::Perl5 because you can't use the > "Perl compatibility adverb" :Perl5 or :P5 ? > > https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes#Perl_compatibility_adverb > > Is that what you mean when you say the "perl regex engine [in Raku] is > too old" ? > > Thanks, Bill. > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 8:23 AM Paul Procacci <pproca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > So two example patterns are: > > > > > [\\u0009\\u000A\\u000D\\u0020-\\u007E\\u0085\\u00A0-\\uD7FF\\uE000-\\uFFFD\\u10000-\\u10FFFF]* > > [\\p{L}\\p{Z}\\p{N}_.:\\/=+\\-@]* > > > > To note, the RE's themselves cannot be changed as they are fed > externally. > > Given that I'm stuck with these RE's which I believe are PCRE, It was my > hopes to lean on perl to do the evaluation. > > Raku's perl regex engine is too old to interpret it properly, hence the > shenanigans with Inline::Perl5. > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 9:51 AM Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Can you provide some samples of what you are trying to match and > >> exclude? There might be alternative solutions. > > > > > > > > -- > > __________________ > > > > :(){ :|:& };: > -- __________________ :(){ :|:& };:
