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We come into contact with all sorts of structured data: telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, credit card numbers, and so on.
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- Postal Address
- Credit Card Number
- Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)
- Valid Input Format
- Untrusted Input
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Other programming languages use the word “Traits” for the concept behind Perl 6 roles.
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Lenz, M. (2017). What are Regexes and Grammars?. In: Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3228-6_1
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