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After all the talk and preparation, it’s time to look at some actual regexes.
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Technically, anchors are also zero-width assertions, and they can look both ahead and behind.
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If this doesn’t make sense to you, don’t worry; it will be clearer after the discussion of match objects and Regex Mechanics in later chapters.
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There should be no need for that. Still, it’s good to have that power.
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Lenz, M. (2017). The Building Blocks of Regexes. In: Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3228-6_3
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