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** quantifier with dynamic count, misbehaves under :exhaustive matching #6051

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p6rt opened this issue Feb 3, 2017 · 2 comments
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p6rt commented Feb 3, 2017

Migrated from rt.perl.org#130711 (status was 'new')

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p6rt commented Feb 3, 2017

From @smls

Normally, the `**` quantifier doesn't care whether the count is
specified as a literal or as an expression enclosed in `{ }`​:

  say "abc".match(/\w ** 2/) # 「ab」
  say "abc".match(/\w ** {2}/) # 「ab」

  say "abc".match(/\w ** 2/, :ov) # (「ab」 「bc」)
  say "abc".match(/\w ** {2}/, :ov) # (「ab」 「bc」)

But when the `​:exhaustive` flag is active, it misbehaves when the
count is specified as a `{ }` expression​:

  say "abc".match(/\w ** 2/, :ex) # (「ab」 「bc」)
  say "abc".match(/\w ** {2}/, :ex) # (「ab」 「a」 「bc」 「b」)

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p6rt commented Aug 26, 2017

From @smls

This bug is still present in

Rakudo version 2017.08-8-g753c9a5ea built on MoarVM version 2017.08.1-19-g151a2563
implementing Perl 6.c.

@p6rt p6rt added the regex Regular expressions, pattern matching, user-defined grammars, tokens and rules label Jan 5, 2020
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