Hi Todd, ~$ raku -e '(sprintf "%.4s", "andefghi" ).put;' ande ~$ raku -e 'put (sprintf "%.4s", "andefghi" );' ande
If sprintf isn't a requirement, then:
~$ raku -e 'put substr("andefghi", 0..3);'
ande
HTH, Bill.
On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 7:37 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a cleaner way to do this?
>
> $ raku -e 'print( (sprintf "%.4s", "andefghi" ) ~ "\n";)'
> ande
>
> I want to print the first four letter s to STDOUT.
>
> -T
>
