Hi Todd, yes in a sense "$/" is related to "$_" in that they're both variables that get filled with values behind the scenes by Raku/Perl6. You already know that "$_" is the general default 'topic' variable (same as in Perl 5, see Ref#1 below).
>From Ref#2 below: " $/ is the match variable. It stores the result of the last Regex match and so usually contains objects of type Match." Apparently "$/" in Raku/Perl6 has replaced a series of variables that were used in Perl5, including "$`", "$&", and "$'" which "are gone from Raku" (Ref#3 below): 1. https://docs.raku.org/language/5to6-perlvar#$ARG,_$_ 2. https://docs.raku.org/syntax/$$SOLIDUS 3. https://docs.raku.org/language/5to6-perlvar#Variables_related_to_regular_expressions HTH, Bill. On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 9:28 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > > On 2019-12-06 20:33, William Michels via perl6-users wrote: > > say $/; > > First I have seen of `$/`. Is it any relation to `$_`?
