Re: Counting characters

2010-01-28 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:40:48AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 01:24:48PM +, Matthew Walton wrote: > : On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Carl Mäsak wrote: > : > Mark (>), Carl (>>): > : >>> S05 describes tr/// in terms of the .trans function, a handsome but > : >>> very d

Re: Counting characters

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Fields
Would you want to use something else for that, maybe .comb? From the spec: 'The comb function looks through a string for the interesting bits, ignoring the parts that don't match. In other words, it's a version of split where you specify what you want, not what you don't want.' chris On Jan 2

r29594 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-01-28 Thread pugs-commits
Author: diakopter Date: 2010-01-28 23:21:40 +0100 (Thu, 28 Jan 2010) New Revision: 29594 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] typo Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod === --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod201