On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 1:07 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
<perl6-us...@perl.org <mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote:
On 2020-11-14 06:00, Brad Gilbert wrote:
> The purpose of `spurt` is to:
> 1. open a NEW file to write to
> 2. print a single string
> 3. close the file
>
> If you are calling `spurt` more than once on a given file, you
are doing
> it wrong.
You are forgetting that spurt comes with an `:append` option.
> If you give `spurt` an array, you are probably doing it wrong
> unless you want the array turned into a single string first.
Ya, doing things the hard way.
On 2020-11-14 11:51, Brad Gilbert wrote:
Actually no I'm not “forgetting that spurt comes with an `:append` option”.
That is a slightly different use case.
It is where you are appending to an existing file once, and then never
touching it again.
(Or maybe you might be touching it again in a few hours.)
---
Given that this is what you wrote:
unlink( $Leafpadrc );
for @LeafpadrcNew -> $Line { spurt( $Leafpadrc, $Line ~ "\n",
:append ); }
I want to know how this is the hard way:
given $Leafpadrc.IO.open(:w) {
for @LeafpadrcNew -> $Line { .put: $Line }
.close;
}
or
given $Leafpadrc.IO.open(:w) -> $*OUT {
for @LeafpadrcNew -> $Line { put $Line }
$*OUT.close;
}
or
given $Leafpadrc.IO.open(:w) -> $*OUT {
.put for @LeafpadrcNew;
$*OUT.close;
}
or
given $Leafpadrc.IO.open(:w, :!out-buffer) -> $*OUT {
.put for @LeafpadrcNew;
}
I was saying I was doing it the hard way, not you.
Wonderful examples. Thank you!
