On 06/21/2017 10:26 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Todd Chester <toddandma...@zoho.com <mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote: > On 22/06/17 14:49, Todd Chester wrote: >> I know how to read things on the command line. But >> how to other's figure out what goes together when things >> don't arrive in order? On 06/21/2017 10:03 PM, Francis (Grizzly) Smit wrote: look into function MAIN in perl6 https://docs.perl6.org/language/functions <https://docs.perl6.org/language/functions> https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/day-2-interacting-with-the-command-line-with-main-subs/ <https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/day-2-interacting-with-the-command-line-with-main-subs/> But they have to be in order. You want named parameters. sub MAIN(:$fixed-string, :$extended-regex, ...) { # $fixed-string and $extended-regex are Bools here, # True if the corresponding option specified } You should recognize this as being similar to named parameters work for normal Perl 6 functions, but MAIN exposes them to the command line like GNUish long options.
What does the ":" do? and does it give you back the value associated with it, if there is one?
