I just tried slurp-rest with a specified encoding and it worked fine. Are you sure you don't bind $ReturnStr between the declaration you've shiown and the use you've shown?
-- raiph On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 10:35 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 10/14/18 2:29 AM, Ralph Mellor wrote: > > In P6 "assign" means use of `=`. > > > > And "assign to" means to copy into the thing on the left of the `=`. > > > > And to copy into something the thing has to be a mutable container. > > > > The error message is saying that $ReturnStr is bound to an > > immutable value (eg a string) not a container. > > > > So that's presumably a problem with whatever code you've > > written that has earlier bound $ReturnStr to an immutable value. > > > > -- > > raiph > > my Str $ReturnStr = ""; > > I think slurp-rest does not support > > enc => 'utf8-c8' > > :'( > > See my other letter on this thread >
