Re^2: HOP::Lexer not doing what I expected

Why? WORD and DQUOTED can't match the same thing. Or is the match unanchored (i.e. preceeded by .*?)?

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Re^3: HOP::Lexer not doing what I expected by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 11, 2006 at 19:03 UTC
I'm wondering that myself! I installed HOP::Lexer to have a play and learn (I've not used the module before). It seemed that WORD was matching first and changing the order fixed that as I expected. It was not obvious why it should match first however. I've now skim read the documentation (including HOP::Lexer::Article) and still don't understand why WORD was matching! Maybe time to trawl through the code? DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]

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Re^3: HOP::Lexer not doing what I expected
by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 11, 2006 at 19:03 UTC

I'm wondering that myself! I installed HOP::Lexer to have a play and learn (I've not used the module before). It seemed that WORD was matching first and changing the order fixed that as I expected. It was not obvious why it should match first however.

I've now skim read the documentation (including HOP::Lexer::Article) and still don't understand why WORD was matching! Maybe time to trawl through the code?

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

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