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› perl6 -v
This is Rakudo version 2017.07 built on MoarVM version 2017.07
In Perl 6.c, regexes/grammars can only parse strings (at the grapheme level).
If you want to parse a Blob or Buf, you have to decode it into a string first
by calling the `.decode` method¹ on it.
Early Perl 6 design documents² suggested support for parsing at the byte or
code-point level, but
