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Argh, they changed the regex syntax! How do I use the Perl 5 regex syntax in Perl 6?

April 26, 2017argh changed Perl regex syntax

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Argh, they changed the regex syntax! How do I use the Perl 5 regex syntax in Perl 6?

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You can use the “Perl5” modifier to specify that a regex should be parsed using the Perl 5 regex syntax. However, note that you must use the new smartmatch operator (“~~”).