On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:00 PM, <philippe.beauch...@bell.ca> wrote: > Once the & operator is in rakudo, though... I gather I /could/ do something > like the following > > ^ [ <!abc>* & <name> ] $ > > And this would in effect ensued that the sequence "abc" doesn't exist > anywhere across the match for <name> > > > Is this correct? >
Not quite, I suspect – the <!abc> is still zero-width, so unless quantified zero-width assertions are DWIMmier than what's healthy, this is likely still equivalent to ^$. I think the following should DWYW, though: ^ [ [ <!abc> . ] * & <name> ] $ ... though perhaps there is a shorter way to write [ <!abc> . ]? Feels like there should be one ... Eirik
