Re^2: Find Length Of Longest Ascending/Descending Sequence

[Ratazong]

nice feature :-)

How will it match data like the following?

11101234567890123411111   =>  expected result: 15

Will you need to create the pattern in <*0123456789> dynamically based on the length of the data?

Rata

[moritz]

Notice the repetition:

<*0123456789> ** <?after 9>

is short for

<*0123456789> [ <?after 9> <*0123456789>]*

So if it matches the first one, and upto 9 (that's what the <?after 9> checks), it tries again to start with 0.

To extract the longest match, you need to collect all, and overlapping (because the last digits of an ascending sequence can be the first of a descending sequence):

my regex seq {
   ...
}
my $length = [max] $teststring.match(&seq, :g, :overlap)>>.chars;