> On Jun 18, 2022, at 11:13 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
> <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> What am I doing wrong here:
From just looking at your code, I am not clear on what you are trying to do.
> > my Buf $y = Buf.new( 0xFA xx 10);
> Buf:0x<FA FA FA FA FA FA FA FA FA FA>
>
> > $y ~= 0xBB.encode.Buf;
> Buf:0x<FA FA FA FA FA FA FA FA FA FA 31 38 37>
>
> I got three entries (31 38 37) instead of one (0xBB)
Yes, because:
raku -e 'say 0xBB.encode;'
utf8:0x<31 38 37>
> Some more goofing around:
> > $y ~= 0xBB;
> Stringification of a Buf is not done with 'Str'. The 'decode' method should
> be used to convert a Buf to a Str.
> [10] > $y += 0xBB;
> Type check failed in assignment to $y; expected Buf but got Int (201)
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If all you want is to append 0xBB to $y, either of these will work:
$y ~= Buf.new(0xBB);
$y.append(0xBB);
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Hope this helps,
Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)
