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Regexes and Perl 6 Code

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Now that you know the basic building blocks of regexes, we’ll explore different ways of using regexes in Perl 6 code.

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  1. 1.

    https://docs.perl6.org/type/Match.html

  2. 2.

    https://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#method_match

  3. 3.

    Which, in fact, they are.

  4. 4.

    Technically, there’s also title case, where special provisions are made when uppercasing the first letter of each word, for example in a headline. The modifier :ignorecase also works with title case.

  5. 5.

    https://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#routine_substr

  6. 6.

    https://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#routine_comb

  7. 7.

    https://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#routine_split

  8. 8.

    https://docs.perl6.org/type/Str#method_subst

  9. 9.

    Or at least it tries to match in a different way; see the discussion on backtracking in Chapter 6 for more details.

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    Moritz Lenz

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Lenz, M. (2017). Regexes and Perl 6 Code. In: Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3228-6_4

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