Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars

Explores the three primary use cases for Perl 6 regexes: searches, validations, and parsingShows you how to master regex techniques
Teaches how to reuse named regexes as templates

Autorentext
Moritz Lenz is a software engineer and architect. In the Perl community, he is well known for his contributions to the Perl 6 programming language, the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, related test suite, infrastructure and tools. At his employer, noris network AG, he introduced continuous delivery for many in-house developed applications, and now wants to share his experience with the wider world.

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1. What are Regexes and Grammars?.- 2. Getting Started with Perl 6.- 3. Building Blocks of Regexes.- 4. Regexes and Perl 6 Code.- 5. Extracting Data from Regex Matches.- 6. Regex Mechanics.- 7. Regex Techniques.- 8. Reusing and Composing Regexes.- 9. Parsing With Grammars.- 10. Extracting Data From Matches.- 11. Generating Good Parse Error Messages.- 12. Unicode and Natural Language.- 13. Case Studies.