Greetings,
I much prefer this syntax:
`~$ raku -e 'my $fh = "ImportantFile_bak".IO; #create filehandle \
"ImportantFile".IO.slurp.subst(:global, "Hello ", "Hi ") andthen
spurt($fh, $_, :createonly);' `
It has a nice left-to-right feel and keeps you from clobbering an
`ImportantFile`.
( Once you're sure of your code/filehandles, clobber-away by deleting
`:createonly` ).
HTH,
Bill.
PS If `Str` had a `spurt` method, wouldn't you be in constant fear of a
sensitive string literal (e.g. a password) being accidentally written to disk?
> On Sep 7, 2025, at 13:24, Elizabeth Mattijsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 7 Sep 2025, at 20:31, Marc Chantreux <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> with "example.txt".IO.slurp {
>>>> s/Hello/Hi/;
>>>> .spurt: $filename;
>>>> }
>>>
>>> Now *that* I find to be an interesting idea. The oneliner would then
>>> become:
>>>
>>> "example.txt".IO.slurp.subst("Hello","Hi").spurt($filename)
>>>
>>> which has a nice left-to-right feel.
>>
>> Which would be indeed my syntax of choice.
>
> Now a PR:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_rakudo_rakudo_pull_5949&d=DwIFAg&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=H_4IX2PNs5J8Am4L9k8XPDKLi8_PeuhJoKcQtnXHZ4c&m=CdwLh6ejqGtN5pVo5BxHnyw_NNX6Q3THBGda101VuhkyU9wfE4bILSaNb-FFWw5p&s=lZpE981EjWUqSAUkAnzmw13LGlTKBgHNSgXAtYL99zY&e=
