Re: Line/string triage?

On Sat, 2025-03-22 at 11:07 +0100, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
> The reason that you cannot use:
> 
>  identifier: [L]+, -~[L].
> 
> is that the next character will be permanently eaten into the
> identifier.

This is sounding more and more like lookahead assertionsin regular
expressions, where you say, i want to match e1 only if it's followed by
e2, but i don't want to consume the e2.

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