The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 04/21 at 1pm PDT
"The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment." -- Raymond Chandler, "A Qualified Farewell" (early 1950's) The Raku Study Group April 21, 2024 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got, ask and answer questions, or just listen and lurk. Perl and programming in general are fair game, along with Raku, Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84629149935?pwd=MmQ4QVIvVFR4VXdoWHVDZlIvYkV4QT09 Passcode: 4RakuRoll RSVPs are useful, though not needed: https://www.meetup.com/san-francisco-perl/events/300499020/
Re: need native call help
I did a lot of very deep windows programming in my previous job and reminding me that I would always use the 8.3 short name for file operations! dir /x will get it for you. Must be API called for it also. Probably only works on local volumes not network rounded ones. Just a guess. I've run into problems on some unix shells with maximum command-line lengths. -y On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 11:58 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 4/17/24 19:10, William Michels via perl6-users wrote: > > Hi Todd, > > > > Here are a few U StackExchange answers that I wrote using Raku's > `unlink`: > > > > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/459521/how-to-truncate-file-to-maximum-number-of-characters-not-bytes/751267#751267 > > > > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/749558/remove-exact-line-from-file-if-present-leave-the-rest-of-lines-error-handling/749581#749581 > > > > (Suggestions welcome). > > > Hi William, > > unlink($_) if $bak.IO:e & $bak.IO:f; > > Interesting! Thank you. > > The problem is that you can not implicitly trust > the file operations when programming on the kluge. > Linux, no problem. > > I wish I had more Linux customers, but I do not. > > -T > > I do not know if you are, but I just append .tmp or .bak on to the name > of my program. I have never used Kernel32::GetTempTileNameA. > > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-gettempfilenamea >
