The whole point of slurp is (possibly lazily in the future) reading everything. If you want to read by bytes, it's the read method; by lines, it's get; for extended characters / graphemes, it's readchars. They all have rather different intents.
On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 7:42 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > I use `slurp` all the time, so of course, I can't > make heads or tails out of > > https://docs.perl6.org/routine/slurp > > I want to slurp the first 400 characters of > a file and close the handle. Am I missing a > `so many` parameter somewhere? > > Many thanks, > -T > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh allber...@gmail.com
