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Quiz — Anchors
What does the following program print?
say so 'I have a dog' ~~ /<< dog >>/;| 1 | True |
| 0 | False |
| 0 | ｢dog｣ |
| 0 | Nil |
The pattern requires dog to be a whole word. In
I have a dog, dog stands alone with a space
before it and the end of the string after it, so there is a word
boundary on each side, the match succeeds, and so returns
True.
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