character classes are fundamentally the wrong thing for "phrases", since
they describe only a character.
Your current regex (before changing [gm] to ["gm"]) was expressing "from
the start of the string, there's any amount of characters d through z
(but neither g nor m) and then the end of the stri
The description perhaps doesn't point out clearly enough: the reason why
the stuff inside the [ ] will match any amount of times is only the * at
the end, the [ ] is only there because otherwise the regex would instead
match something you didn't mean at all. If you're interested, read on
for an exp
Hi,
I'm trying to use perl6-debug-m for doing Regex and Grammar Debugging.
When I use Rakudo version 2016.10 , it's works fine. I get the behaviour which
is described at https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/a-perl-6-debugger/
in section "Regex and Grammar Debugging". I can easily see
Nice RE tutorial :-)
/^ [ | <[d..z]-[g]> | g ]* $/
One question I have is what is the first | for?
On Thu, 17 May 2018 at 21:10, Timo Paulssen wrote:
> The description perhaps doesn't point out clearly enough: the reason why
> the stuff inside the [ ] will match any amount of times is only the
