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 <
perl6-users@perl.org> 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
>

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