I think the easiest way to get a 400 characters from a file is with .comb() on the file.
'example.txt'.IO.comb(400).head() On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 6:42 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I use `slurp` all the time, so of course, I can't > make heads or tails out of > > https://docs.perl6.org/routine/slurp > > I want to slurp the first 400 characters of > a file and close the handle. Am I missing a > `so many` parameter somewhere? > > Many thanks, > -T