~ works fine for concatenating Bufs; For example: my $a = Buf.new(1,2,3); my $b = $a ~ Buf.new(4,5,6)
will assign correctly to $b. I can't work out what the problem is here, despite trying various combinations. Perhaps socket isn't really returning a Blob? Kevin. On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 21:01, JJ Merelo <jjmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are using ~, which stringifies. Bufs are not strings: you need to > decode them to concatenate it to a string. If what you want is to > concatenate the buffer, probably ,= will work (not sure about this, would > have to check), or any other operator that works on Positionals. > > JJ > > El mar., 11 feb. 2020 a las 10:56, David Santiago (<deman...@gmail.com>) > escribió: > >> A 11 de fevereiro de 2020 10:47:34 CET, David Santiago < >> deman...@gmail.com> escreveu: >> >A 11 de fevereiro de 2020 09:46:06 CET, David Santiago < >> deman...@gmail.com> escreveu: >> >> >> >>Hi! >> >> >> >>Can someone explain me why this doesn't work: >> >> >> >>my Blob $read; >> >>$read ~= $socket.read(1024); >> >> >> >>Dies with error: >> >> >> >>X::Buf::AsStr: Cannot use a Buf as a string, but you called the Stringy >> method on it >> >> >> >>This also doesn't work: >> >> >> >>my Buf $read; >> >>$read ~= $socket.read(1024); >> >> >> >>Dies with the same error as above. >> >> >> >> >> >>But this works? >> >> >> >>my Blob $read = Buf.new; >> >>$read ~= $socket.read(1024); >> >> >> >> >> >>Best regards, >> >>David Santiago >> > >> > >> >Hi! >> > >> >Can someone explain me why this doesn't work: >> > >> >my Blob $read; >> >$read ~= $socket.read(1024); >> > >> >Dies with error: >> > >> >X::Buf::AsStr: Cannot use a Buf as a string, but you called the Stringy >> method on it >> > >> >This also doesn't work: >> > >> >my Buf $read; >> >$read ~= $socket.read(1024); >> > >> >Dies with the same error as above. >> > >> > >> >But this works? >> > >> >my Blob $read = Buf.new; >> >$read ~= $socket.read(1024); >> > >> > >> >Best regards, >> >David Santiago >> >> >> Hi! >> >> Can someone explain me why this doesn't work: >> >> my Blob $read; >> $read ~= $socket.read(1024); >> >> Dies with error: >> >> X::Buf::AsStr: Cannot use a Buf as a string, but you called the Stringy >> method on it >> >> This also doesn't work: >> >> my Buf $read; >> $read ~= $socket.read(1024); >> >> Dies with the same error as above. >> >> >> But this works? >> >> my Blob $read = Buf.new; >> $read ~= $socket.read(1024); >> >> >> Best regards, >> David Santiago >> >> -- >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >> > > > -- > JJ >
