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=={{header|Raku}}==
=={{header|Raku}}==
(formerly Perl 6)
(formerly Perl 6)
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Perl 6 has a built in method .getc to get a single character from an open file handle. File handles default to UTF-8, so they will handle multi-byte characters correctly.


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Raku has a built in method .getc to get a single character from an open file handle. File handles default to UTF-8, so they will handle multi-byte characters correctly.
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To read a single character at a time from the Standard Input terminal; $*IN in Perl 6:

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To read a single character at a time from the Standard Input terminal; $*IN in Raku:
<lang perl6>.say while defined $_ = $*IN.getc;</lang>
<lang perl6>.say while defined $_ = $*IN.getc;</lang>


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