Brent Dax asked:
> Will that handle captures correctly?
I believe so. Each (successful) time through the loop we cache
a reference to the candidate's match object, which will successfully
have stored all the captures from the candidate's matching.
Then we reinstate the best candidate, by bindin
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 03:48:25PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> But the most straightforward way to match longest is probably to use
> :any to get a superposition of matches, and then pull out the longest
> match.
So, does :any return a list of the substrings that matched or a list
of match objec
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 03:48:25PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: > But the most straightforward way to match longest is probably to use
: > :any to get a superposition of matches, and then pull out the longest
: > match.
:
: So, does :any return a
