more LHF examples

Author: stmuk

categories/cookbook/01strings/01-06reversing-strings.pl

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+use v6;
+
+=begin pod
+
+=TITLE Reversing a String by Word or Character
+
+=AUTHOR stmuk
+
+You want to reverse words or characters in a string
+
+=end pod
+
+my $string = "The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage";
+
+# reverse the characters in a scalar
+
+say $string.flip;
+
+# reverse the words in a scalar
+
+say $string.split(" ").reverse;
+
+# vim: expandtab shiftwidth=4 ft=perl6

categories/cookbook/01strings/01-19-trim-whitespace.pl

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+use v6;
+
+=begin pod
+
+=TITLE Trimming whitespace from both ends of a string
+
+=AUTHOR stmuk
+
+You have a string with leading and/or trailing whitespace 
+you wish to remove
+
+=end pod
+
+my $string = "\t the cat sat on the mat  ";
+
+$string.=trim;
+
+say :$string.perl;
+
+# vim: expandtab shiftwidth=4 ft=perl6