Read line from file

As in other high level languages one has to open a file in order to read from it or to write to it. In Perl 6 it is done by the open() function imported from the IO class. It can receive several parameter but thw two are very important: The name of the file and the mode. In order to open a file for reading the mode need to be :r. The function either returns a file handle that should be placed in a scalar variable or returns undef in case of failure.

$fh = open $filename, :r

Once we have an open file handler we can use the get method ($fh.get) to read one line from the given file.

One could read many lines using consecutive calls to the get method but there are better ways to do that.

Currently I think Rakudo throws an exception if the file cannot be opened but I think the spec says that it should just return undef.

The specifications of all the IO of Perl 6 can be found in S32-setting-library/IO.pod

#!/usr/bin/env perl6
use v6;

my $filename = $*PROGRAM_NAME;

my $fh = open $filename;
my $line = $fh.get;
say $line;

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