CatHandle? Is that an alias for "tail"? :-)*
On 10/22/19, Marcel Timmerman <mt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/22/19 1:05 PM, Marcel Timmerman wrote: >> On 10/20/19 11:38 PM, Joseph Brenner wrote: >>> I was just thinking about the case of processing a large file in >>> chunks of an arbitrary size (where "lines" or "words" don't really >>> work). I can think of a few approaches that would seem kind-of >>> rakuish, but don't seem to be built-in anywhere... something like a >>> variant of "slurp" with an argument to specify how much you want to >>> slurp at a time, that'll move on to the next chunk the next time it's >>> invoked... >>> >>> Is there anything like that kicking around that I've missed? >> as a side note, there is also a .IO.CHandle.readchars($size), with >> $size a default of 64 kb. >> >> Regards, >> Marcel > > I meant .IO.CatHandle.readchars($size) > sorry > M >
