Hans Ginzel writes:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:12:16PM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> > about string subscripting. Since $a[0] cannot be mistaken for array subscripting
> > anymore, could this now be used to peep into scalars? Looks easier than using
>
> Are there plans in Perl 6 for string modifiers?
Not exactly. But method calls can be interpolated into strings, so most
of this is pretty straightforward:
> As they are in bash eg.:
> ${var%glob_or_regexp}
> ${var%%glob_or_regexp}
my $newfile = "$str.subst(rx|\.\w+$|, '')\.bin";
> ${var#glob_or_regexp}
> ${var##glob_or_regexp}
say "Basename is $str.subst(rx|.*/|, '')"
> ${var/pattern/string}
say "$str.subst(rx|foo|, 'bar')"
> ${var:[+-=]word}
# ${var:-word}
say "You chose $($value // 'no value')";
# ${var:=word}
say "You chose $($value //= 'no value')";
# ${var:?word}
say "You chose $($value // die 'please choose a value')"
Luke
