Perl 6 Essentials

Name

stringinfo

Synopsis

stringinfo DEST, STRING, FLAG
               

Return information about a string. An integer flag selects which information to return, as listed in Table 6-8.

Table 6-8. Stringinfo arguments

Flag	Returns
1	Location of string buffer header.
2	Location of start of string memory.
3	Allocated length, in bytes.
4	String flags.
5	Used length of string buffer, in bytes.
6	String length, in characters.