You don't even need the quotes: > say <ab cd ef>[3,1]; (Nil cd) >
Le ven. 5 oct. 2018 à 10:15, Todd Chester <toddandma...@zoho.com> a écrit : > > > On 10/5/18 1:12 AM, Todd Chester wrote: > >>> Le ven. 5 oct. 2018 à 08:30, Todd Chester <toddandma...@zoho.com > >>> <mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> a écrit : > >>> > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I went to reply to someone, I think it was Brandon for sending me > >>> an eMail to my private address and the stinker disappeared! > >>> > >>> Anyway whoever sent me > >>> > >>> $ p6 'say <the quick brown>[0,2];' > >>> (the brown) > >>> > >>> I was trying to figure out why this bombed: > >>> > >>> $ p6 ' say "a b c d"[3,1];' > >>> Index out of range. Is: 3, should be in 0..0 > >>> in block <unit> at -e line 1 > >>> > >>> And you beat me to the punch! It was the <>. > >>> > >>> Thank you! > >>> > >>> -T > >>> > > > > > > On 10/5/18 12:31 AM, Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users wrote: > >> Yeah, Todd, the angle brackets operator in <the quick brown> produces > >> a list of three words which you can access individually with an index, > >> whereas quotes in "a b c d" creates a single string. But to come back > >> to the start of a very long thread of discussion over the last days, > >> if you want to access individual words of the string, you can of > >> course do this: > >> > say "a b c d".words[3,1]; > >> (d b) > >> > >> Cheers, Laurent. > >> > >> > >> > > > > Hi Laurent, > > > > Thank you! > > > > This makes it clear in my mind what is happening. > > $ p6 'dd <a b c d>;' > > ("a", "b", "c", "d") > > > > [] need to be given a "list" of things. And > > $ p6 'dd "a b c d";' > > "a b c d" > > a string is not a list. The give away is the () that dd > > produces. > > > > -T > > > $ p6 ' say <"ab" "cd" "ef">[3,1];' > (Nil "cd") > > > :-) >
