Ah, you are completely right about \N, of course. I'm just a blockhead ;(

Concerning quotes: I think that the way I structured mine is easier to convert from logic. For instance, I defined a quoted string as: 

- start quote
- string of (non-quote or backslashed quote) characters
- end quote

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Which I then translated into (comments added this time): 

rule quoted_string
{
    " # start quote

    [ # string
    
        <-["]>+: # non quote characters
        | # or 
        [ <after \\ > " ] # backslashed quote character

    ]* # end string

    " # end quote
}

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It was then shown how to make it "dynamic" by simply adding an argument and subsituting that argument in for the quote delimeter. While yours is much more elegant and efficient, I thought that my example was easier to follow in the current context.

In reply to Re: Re: Parsing with Perl 6 by jryan
in thread Parsing with Perl 6 by jryan

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