One of the miseries of life is that everybody names things a little bit wrong. —- Richard P. Feynman
Text::Fortune is the bare beginnings of a Perl6 module for dealing with
fortune(6) and strfile(1) type files.
The inteface is totally up in the air at the moment....
It's workable, but very ugly.
use Text::Fortune;
# a strfile(1) equivalent
sub strfile ($fortunefile) {
my $index = Text::Fortune::Index.new.load-fortune($fortunefile);
($fortunefile ~ '.dat').IO.open(:w).write($index.Buf);
}
# load existing '.dat' file
my $index = Text::Fortune::Index.new.load-dat($datfile);
print qq:to<END>;
there are {$index.count} fortunes delimited by {$index.delimiter}
the longest is {$index.longest} characters
the shortest is {$index.shortest}
they are {$.rotated ?? '' !! 'not'} in rot13 (obscene)
the offset of the last quote is {$index.offset-at($index.count - 1)}
and it is {$index.bytelength-of($index.count - 1)} *bytes*
END
# bare fortune(6)
my $fortune = Text::Fortune::File.new( path => '/usr/share/games/fortunes/perl' );
say $fortune.get-fortune((0..^$fortune.count).pick) # aka .random()
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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
-- Larry Wall in <199710071721.KAA19014@wall.org>
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# handles offensive (rot13) fortunes
my $fortune = Text::Fortune::File.new( path => '/usr/share/games/fortunes/off/religion' );
say $fortune.get-fortune((0..^$fortune.count).pick)
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Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.
-- John Lennon, "Imagine"
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Things are certain to change.