📘 Incrementing array elements in Raku

Increment each element in an array.

In Perl 6, there is no need to explicitly iterate over an array to apply some operation to each element. Use a hyper-operator:

@data>>++;

Let us try it on a small array:

my @data = 1..10;
@data>>++;
say @data; # [2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11]

The >>++ operator is a hyper-operator that applies the ++ operator to each element of the array. As the ++ operator modifies the element, the whole @data array is also modified after the operation.

Alternatively, one of the following forms may be used:

@data <<+=>> 1;
@data >>+=>> 1;

These constructions take every element of the array and perform the += 1 operation on it.

Notice that if you omit the = sign in the last examples, the original data is not modified.

my @data = 1..10;
my @new-data = @data >>+>> 1;
say @data;     # [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]
say @new-data; # [2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11]