use v6-alpha;

=head1 Substrings

You want to access or modify a portion of a string, not the whole thing.

=cut

my ($string, $offset, $count) = ('Pugs is da bomb', 2, 5);
say $string.substr($offset, $count);
say $string.substr($offset);

substr($string, $offset) = "gilism ain't for wimps";
say $string;