method parent
Documentation for method parent
assembled from the following types:
class IO::Path
From IO::Path
(IO::Path) method parent
Defined as:
multi method parent(IO::Path:)multi method parent(IO::Path: UInt )
Returns the parent path of the invocant. Note that no actual filesystem access is made, so the returned parent is physical and not the logical parent of symlinked directories.
'/etc/foo'.IO.parent.say; # OUTPUT: «"/etc".IO»'/etc/..' .IO.parent.say; # OUTPUT: «"/etc".IO»'/etc/../'.IO.parent.say; # OUTPUT: «"/etc".IO»'./' .IO.parent.say; # OUTPUT: «"..".IO»'foo' .IO.parent.say; # OUTPUT: «".".IO»'/' .IO.parent.say; # OUTPUT: «"/".IO»IO::Path::Win32.new('C:/').parent.say; # OUTPUT: «"C:/".IO»
If $level
is specified, the call is equivalent to calling .parent()
$level
times:
say "/etc/foo".IO.parent(2) eqv "/etc/foo".IO.parent.parent; # OUTPUT: «True»
class X::Inheritance::Unsupported
From X::Inheritance::Unsupported
(X::Inheritance::Unsupported) method parent
The type object that the child tried to inherit from.