NAME

IO::Stem - Provides the part of an IO.basename left with the IO.extension removed

SYNOPSIS

use IO::Stem;
say "finance.data".IO.stem;     # OUTPUT: «finance␤»
# aliases for method 'stem':
say "finance.data".IO.barename; # OUTPUT: «finance␤»
say "finance.data".IO.name;     # OUTPUT: «finance␤»
say "finance.data".IO.filename; # OUTPUT: «finance␤»

DESCRIPTION

Class IO::Stem is an extension of core class IO::Path which currently has no method to provide that part of a basename remaining after its extension is removed. Its methods are intended to be candidates for inclusion in the next major release of Raku. Each method name has been found to be used for the same purpose in several well-known domains including make, LaTeX, and shell.

For heavier work on paths it is easier to get a new IO::Stem object and save some keystrokes. The same results shown in the code block above can be expressed as follows:

use IO::Stem;
my $o = IO::Stem.new: "finance.data";
say $o.stem;     # OUTPUT: «finance␤»
# aliases for method 'stem':
say $o.barename; # OUTPUT: «finance␤»
say $o.name;     # OUTPUT: «finance␤»
say $o.filename; # OUTPUT: «finance␤»

AUTHOR

Tom Browder tbrowder@acm.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you may redistribute it or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.