Arrays

Ordered collections with the @ sigil — index, slice, push, sort, join.

An array holds an ordered list of values and wears the @ sigil. The <...> quoting form makes a list of words without repeating quotes:

my @fruits = <apple banana cherry>;
say @fruits;
say @fruits.elems;
say @fruits[0];
say @fruits[*-1];

[apple banana cherry]
3
apple
cherry

Indexing starts at 0, and [*-1] reads "the last one" — literally the whole count minus one.

Growing and shrinking #

my @stack = <a b>;
@stack.push('c');
say @stack;
say @stack.pop;
say @stack;

[a b c]
c
[a b]

Slices, sorting, joining #

Ask for several indices at once and you get a slice; .sort and .reverse return new lists; .join glues elements into a string:

my @langs = <Raku Perl Python C>;
say @langs[0, 2];
say @langs.sort;
say @langs.join(', ');

(Raku Python)
(C Perl Python Raku)
Raku, Perl, Python, C

Try it #

Given the shopping list, print it sorted, one item per line.

my @shopping = <milk eggs bread apples>;

my @shopping = <milk eggs bread apples>;
for @shopping.sort {
    say $_;
}

apples
bread
eggs
milk