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 welcome.
Now for your next homework assignment, write
a "less" substitute in Raku! You have to read the
keyboard, do a forwards and backwards, and a
search.
man less
DESCRIPTION
Less is a program similar to more (1), but which allows
backward movement in the file as well as forward movement.
Also, less does not have to read the entire input file
before starting, so with large input files it
starts up faster than text editors like vi (1). Less
uses termcap (or terminfo on some systems), so it can run
on a variety of terminals. There is even limited
support for hardcopy terminals. (On a hardcopy terminal,
lines which should be printed at the top of the screen
are prefixed with a caret.)
Commands are based on both more and vi. Commands may
be preceded by a decimal number, called N in the
descriptions below. The number is used by some commands,
as indicated.
Like "cat" on steroids! Probably more fun than writing
Winn API calls!
:-)
-T
