How do I pass an arbitrary list of arguments on the command line in Perl 6?

Question

I know how to pass single and named arguments on the command line to a Perl 6 script, but how do I pass an arbitrary list of arguments?

For example,

script.pl6 fileA.txt fileB.txt

and then run it with

script.pl6 fileC.txt fileD.txt .. fileZ.txt

Answer 1

The raw commandline arguments can be found in @*ARGS.

You can also use a sub &MAIN with a slurpy parameter, ie

sub MAIN(*@args) { ... }

Note that this will reject invocations that pass flags. If you want to capture those as well, use

sub MAIN(*@args, *%flags) { ... }