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From:
Luke Palmer
Date:
June 13, 2002 12:57
Subject:
lex behavior
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.33.0206131352001.22687-100000@babylonia.flatirons.org

I'm still unclear as to how you implement lex-like longest token rule with 
P6 regexes.  If the | operator grabs the first one it matches, how do I 
match "bacamus" out of this?:

	"bacamus" =~ / b.*a | b.*s /


Luke
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