Hello All

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Not sure whether this is the right forum for this question - please excuse and point me in the right direction if I'm wrong.

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I�have been playing with Moose 4.8, downloaded last October, mainly because I am interested in PetitParser. I have been constructing fairly trivial parsers to get to understand the system. I took as an example�a typical HTML tag, i.e. any text enclosed in angle brackets <>. My first attempt was:

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($< asParser, $> asParser not star, $> asParser).

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This seemed to send the parser into a loop, except in the case where there was no text between the brackets. Floundering around, I tried:

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($< asParser,�(PPPredicateObjectParser anyExceptAnyOf: '>')�star, $> asParser).

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This worked as expected, but I was not happy with the apparent clumsiness of the middle term. So I tried:

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($< asParser,�(PPPredicateObjectParser char: $>) not�star, $> asParser).

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This again sent the parser into a loop.

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It looks as though I have some fundamental misunderstanding of the function of 'not' in a parser, or else it is not working as specified. Could someone kindly explain to an inquisitive idiot what is going wrong?

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Many thanks in advance

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Peter Kenny