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 >