This is not what you meant to do: $ echo -e "abc\ndef\nghi" | perl6 -e 'my @y = split "\n", lines; say @y.perl ["abc def ghi"]
the lines sub already gives you a list of lines that perl6 gets fed, you're calling split on that array that then gets coerced to a string (which joins the lines with spaces) and then split by newlines (of which there are none at that point), so what you end up with in @y is just a single entry. So just use `my @y = lines;` instead. HTH - Timo
