On 2020-01-21 11:08, William Michels via perl6-users wrote:
Good answers, all. Thanks to everyone for contributing.
For anyone who wants a golfed "cat" replacement, command line
arguments can give you shorter code:
Hi William,
I don't know if I contributed anything at all,
but you are most
($val = pop(@ary));
From: William Michels via perl6-users
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 1:08 PM
To: Trey Harris ; perl6-users
Cc: Andrew Shitov ; Curt Tilmes ; Joseph
Brenner ; ToddAndMargo ; yary
; Elizabeth Mattijsen ; ngayw...@une.edu.au
Subject: Re: Using r
Good answers, all. Thanks to everyone for contributing.
For anyone who wants a golfed "cat" replacement, command line
arguments can give you shorter code:
mydir$ perl6 -e '.say for lines' ab_cd.txt
a
b
c
d
mydir$ perl6 -ne '.say' ab_cd.txt
a
b
c
d
mydir$ # below two single quotes as empty ar
> On 21 Jan 2020, at 01:01, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 03:12, Brad Gilbert wrote:
> .say for lines
>
> Since .say calls gist(), would it be not be better/safer to call .put instead?
>
>.put for lines
Since lines only produces Str objects, and both Str.Str and Str.g
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 19:03 Trey Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 02:59 William Michels via perl6-users <
> perl6-users@perl.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Yary (and Todd),
>>
>> Thank you both for your responses. Yary, the problem seems to be with
>> "get". I can change 'while' to 'for' below, but
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 19:01 Norman Gaywood wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 03:12, Brad Gilbert wrote:
>
>> .say for lines
>>
>
> Since .say calls gist(), would it be not be better/safer to call .put
> instead?
>
>.put for lines
>
If being set directly from `lines`, I can’t see when
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 02:59 William Michels via perl6-users <
perl6-users@perl.org> wrote:
> Hi Yary (and Todd),
>
> Thank you both for your responses. Yary, the problem seems to be with
> "get". I can change 'while' to 'for' below, but using 'get' raku/perl6
> actually returns fewer lines with
On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 03:12, Brad Gilbert wrote:
> .say for lines
>
Since .say calls gist(), would it be not be better/safer to call .put
instead?
.put for lines
--
Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer
School of Science and Technology
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351, A
.say for lines
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 1:59 AM William Michels via perl6-users <
perl6-users@perl.org> wrote:
> Hi Yary (and Todd),
>
> Thank you both for your responses. Yary, the problem seems to be with
> "get". I can change 'while' to 'for' below, but using 'get' raku/perl6
> actually ret
Hi Yary (and Todd),
Thank you both for your responses. Yary, the problem seems to be with
"get". I can change 'while' to 'for' below, but using 'get' raku/perl6
actually returns fewer lines with "for" than it did with "while":
[1]mydir$ cat testthis_abc_def.txt
a
b
c
d
e
f
[2]mydir$ perl6 -e '.s
On 2020-01-18 17:54, yary wrote:
"while" is the wrong looping construct for going over file lines, and
that's across a great many computer languages. It will stop when it
encounters a false line- typically an empty line or '0'
Try "for"
-y
Hi William,
I don't know if this will help you, b
"while" is the wrong looping construct for going over file lines, and
that's across a great many computer languages. It will stop when it
encounters a false line- typically an empty line or '0'
Try "for"
-y
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 4:45 PM William Michels
wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I've been revi
Hello All,
I've been reviewing literature that discusses using raku/perl6 as a
replacement for common unix utilities. One important unix utility is
"cat". I looked at docs/blogs and found a recommendation to use "$*IN"
along with "slurp" (references at bottom). Using a seven-line test
file "testth
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