Re: DFA rules and p5's $/

2007-03-13 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:11:32PM +1100, Brad Bowman wrote: : Hello, : : Regarding this from perlvar: : : Remember: the value of $/ is a string, not a regex. awk has to : be better for something. :-) : : It seems to me that the DFAable rules would intertwingle nicely as : a non-b

DFA rules and p5's $/

2007-03-13 Thread Brad Bowman
Hello, Regarding this from perlvar: Remember: the value of $/ is a string, not a regex. awk has to be better for something. :-) It seems to me that the DFAable rules would intertwingle nicely as a non-backtracking stream chunker. Is the form of per-filehandle input record separa