Re: sub for die?

On 02/17/2017 06:43 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, $ cat die.pl6 #!/usr/bin/perl6 use strict; # use warnings; # use lib; # fill name of lib in die "Curses on you!"; $ die.pl6 Curses on you! in block at ./die.pl6 line 7 What is the best way to exit, like "die", without the commentary

Re: print to STDERR problem

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 10:33 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > am having issues writing to STDERR. I am using this as > a reference: >https://perl6.org/archive/rfc/30.html > >The p52p6 translator needs to be able to spot >instances of barewords and globs

print to STDERR problem

Hi All, I am having issues writing to STDERR. I am using this as a reference: https://perl6.org/archive/rfc/30.html The p52p6 translator needs to be able to spot instances of barewords and globs and translate them to scalars: print STDERR @foo; ->

Re: need {} help

/ doesn't have a meaning in regex, but it's not an alpha character, so if you want to "match literally" it "must be quoted" as the first error message tells you. On top of that, balanced characters like () and {} aren't allowed for the s/// form (only for the assignment form which looks like s{

need {} help

Hi All, I need to figure out how to use {} is substitutes. I got the // down, now I need to learn {}. I am trying to get away from the \/\/\\/\/\/\\/ nightmare. #!/usr/bin/perl6 print "FILE = <$?FILE>\n"; (my $IAm =~ $?FILE ) ~~ s/.*\///; print "IAm = <$IAm>\n"; (my $IAm2 =~ $?FILE )

Re: cifs control

On 02/18/2017 06:16 AM, yary wrote: If your code will be running on Windows, then you should be able to use Perl6's native filesystem calls with UNC paths, and those can take IP addresses instead of host names eg. \\192.168.1.154\C$\Users\MiniMe\Documents Cool. Thank you! --

Re: net::SMTP in rpm land?

On 02/18/2017 03:51 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote: Almost no linux distros package perl6 modules for their native package manager yet. The only distro i know of that has any kind of perl6 module packaging at all is archlinux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0=perl6 You need to use panda

Re: sub for die?

On 02/18/2017 03:30 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote: It is usually considered The Right Thing to output error messages to stderr instead of stdout; you can use "note" to output to stderr (and it'll also put a newline at the end for you, which print doesn't do). True. Thank you --

Re: intercept STDERR

Normally it's enough to override $*ERR for this purpose. I suggest using IO::MiddleMan to do that, or maybe IO::Capture::Simple. HTH - Timo

Re: cifs control

On 18/02/17 06:04, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry for the 1000 questions today, but I have anb entire > week to think them up. And I have another one. > > In Windows, I am noticing that Cobian Backup and Windows > Explorer (not Internet Explorer) can tool around CIFS > (Windows) shares

Re: reverse of .lines?

On 18/02/17 06:09, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 02/17/2017 07:44 PM, yary wrote: >> Oh, then chain join on the end: >> >> my $StringReversedLines = >> $StringFullOfLineFeeds.lines.reverse.join("\n") >> >> or >> >> my $StringReversedLines = >> $StringFullOfLineFeeds.split("\n",:v).reverse.join >>

Re: sub for die?

It is usually considered The Right Thing to output error messages to stderr instead of stdout; you can use "note" to output to stderr (and it'll also put a newline at the end for you, which print doesn't do).