How do I read from STDIN in Rakudo Perl6?
io, raku, rakudo, stdin
Solution
The standard input file descriptor in Perl6 is `$*IN` (in Perl5 the `*STDIN` typeglob had a reference to the STDIN file descriptor as `*STDIN{IO}`).
One way of reading from standard input is the following:
for lines() {
say "Read: ", $_
}
In fact, `lines()` without an invocant object defaults to `$*IN.lines()`.
An alternative that uses a local variable is:
for $*IN.lines() -> $line {
say "Read: ", $line
}
Would be cool to see more alternative ways of doing it.
Problem
As simple as that, how can I read input from STDIN in Perl6? I reckon there's many ways of doing it, but I'm interested in the most idiomatic Perl6 solution.