Re: Finding the text a rule matched

On Sunday, October 28, 2001, at 02:32 AM, Marcel Grunauer wrote:

> I wanted to know, after matching a rule, what text the rule matched.
> So I used two variables to remember what the remaining text and
> offset were before and after the rule and just determined the
> difference.


Parse::RecDescent::Consumer does this. You can get it from CPAN. I told 
Damian about it a long time ago, and he thought it was a good idea. I 
don't know if he ever rolled it into core or not.