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Solution: Match a phrase

Here is a possible solution to the task.

Code

say 'I love Raku' ~~ / 'love Raku' /;

🦋 You can find the source code in the file match-a-word.raku.

Output

｢love Raku｣

Comments

1. The space between the words is significant here, so the phrase is wrapped in quotes: 'love Raku'. Without the quotes, the regex engine would ignore the space and look for loveRaku, which is not in the string.

2. The smartmatch returns a match object covering the whole quoted phrase, which say prints between corner brackets.

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