RE: regex and

Back to your original advice...


> If you want to match an alphabetic string which does not include 'abc'
> anywhere, you can write this as
>
> ^ [ <!abc> <alpha> ]* $


I presume this only works here because <alpha> is one character... if instead of <alpha> I used anything more complicated 

(for example)

token name
{
	<[A..Z]><alpha>*
}


And then tried to do ^ [ <!abc> <name> ]* $
This wouldn't work since there's a wildcard within name.



Once the & operator is in rakudo, though... I gather I /could/ do something like the following

^ [ <!abc>* & <name> ]  $

And this would in effect ensued that the sequence "abc"  doesn't exist anywhere across the match for <name> 


Is this correct?

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