Hi, In Perl5 one can do a search and replace on binary data. Something like this works fine:
perl -pe 's/abc/def/' data > data.out The Perl6 straight equivalent perl6 -pe 's/abc/def/' data > data.out throws an exception: Malformed UTF-8 in block <unit> at -e line 1 which is completely understandable. But even writing a program which handles binary data, such as: my $fh = open 'data', :r, :bin; while my $line = $fh.read(8192) { ... $*OUT.write($line) } is of no help, because in this case $line is a Buf[uint8], which has no subst or match(Buf[uint8]: Regex) method available. Is there any way shorter than pack/unpack to handle binary data? Thanks! -- Fernando Santagata