Perl 6 Deep Dive

Characters and strings

Let us start with printing textual data:

Directive	Description
%%	The % character
%c	A character
%s	A string

 

Here are some examples of the directives in the preceding table:

printf "The percent sign: %%\n";
printf "Character %c\n", 167;
printf "String %s\n", 'Hello, World';

This program prints the following lines:

The percent sign: %
Character §
String Hello, World

Notice that the %c directive treats the corresponding argument as a character, not as an integer.