Re: /x on regexes in Perl6?

Gee, I wish I had seen you there...

Well, I suppose I'm a good person to have answer this. By making /x the default, people will be inclined to space out (and comment!) their regexes. This is definitely a help.

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Re: Re: /x on regexes in Perl6? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Aug 06, 2001 at 07:08 UTC
So matching a literal space will require something like `/\ /`? (Supposing I don't want to match a tab or a newline character, and don't want to match a character class.) That's rare enough, I can't see where it would be a burden on me. Might be tough to read, though, which makes the character class a better solution. Or a quick comment, which is probably the best solution. `if ($string =~ /\ # literal space here /) { # do this or that }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: /x on regexes in Perl6?
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Aug 06, 2001 at 07:08 UTC

/\ /

That's rare enough, I can't see where it would be a burden on me. Might be tough to read, though, which makes the character class a better solution. Or a quick comment, which is probably the best solution.

if ($string =~ /\ # literal space here
/) {
    # do this or that
}
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