On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:02:22PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
: Of course, the regex itself can do this:
:
: qr{(fo*) ({$1 ne 'foo'})}
Er, at the moment bare closures don't care about their return value,
so as it currently stands, you'd want something more like:
rx/(fo*) {fail if $1 eq 'foo'}/
or
rx/(fo*) <($1 ne 'foo')>/
But yes, backtracking is a decent way to handle it.
Larry
