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Solution: The matched text

Here is a possible solution to the task.

Code

'database' ~~ /base/;
say $/.Str;

🦋 You can find the source code in the file matched-text.raku.

Output

base

Comments

Every smartmatch stores its result in the special match variable $/, so there is no need to assign it to a variable of our own.
The match object holds the matched text; calling .Str on $/ returns that text as an ordinary string. Printing the match object directly would have shown ｢base｣ instead.

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