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>> On 10 Jun 2022, at 07:54, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I can easily get away with this in Modula2, but >> how can I do this with Raku? >> >> I wish to create a single variable that can be >> manipulated in two ways: >> >> 1) as a fixed length string (Str) >> >> 2) as a fixed length buffer (Buf) >> >> I can think of ways to do this, but it would >> require separate variable and conversions routines >> back and forth. >> >> Any words of Raku wisdom? >> >> Many thanks, >> -T On 6/10/22 01:23, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > Perhaps https://raku.land/zef:raku-community-modules/Pythonic::Str is what you're after? No really. Maybe if I was to tell you what I am trying to do. I am trying to do a bitwise XOR on each byte against another Buf. Then I want it to act like a string again. I want the variable to act as both an array of characters and a binary array of bytes.Thread Previous | Thread Next