Re: Test not working so well

On Mon, 11 Dec 2023, at 09:24, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
> On 12/10/23 14:16, Kevin Pye wrote:

>> Because you asked for a match with a string consisting entirely of exactly 8 digits.

> I am not following.  :'(

^    beginning of string

<[0..9]> a digit

** 8 repeated exactly eight times

% end of string

so /^ <[0..9]> ** 8 $/ means exactly eight digits in the string, and nothing else. You have eight characters, but seven of them aren't digits, so the match fails.

Similarly in the second case.