Santa was dabbling a bit with regexes in the Raku Programming Language, just to satisfy their curiosity. Trying to find out how many children have a first name that starts with a vowel. That seemed like a nice little project! Since the Big Database Server at the North Pole was already heating up a lot,Continue reading “Day 7 – The Magic Of $/”
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RFC 145, by Eric J. Roode: Brace-matching for Perl Regular Expressions
Problem and proposal The RFC 145 calls for a new regex mechanism to assist in matching paired characters like parentheses, ensuring that they are balanced. There are many “paired characters” in more or less daily use: (), [], {}, <>, «», “”, ”, depending on your local even »«, or in the fancy world ofContinue reading “RFC 145, by Eric J. Roode: Brace-matching for Perl Regular Expressions”
Raku Advent Calendar 