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reallocate
Combined from primary sources listed below.

In role Buf§

See primary documentation in context for method reallocate. 

method reallocate(Buf:D: Int:D $elems)

Change the number of elements of the Buf, returning the changed Buf. The size of Buf will be adapted depending on the number of $elems specified: if it is smaller than the actual size of the Buf the resulting Buf will be shrunk down, otherwise it will be enlarged to fit the number of $elems. In the case the Buf is enlarged, newly created items will be assigned a Virtual Machine specific null value, therefore you should not rely upon their value since it could be inconsistent across different virtual machines.

my Buf $bú .= new(^10);
$bú.reallocate(5);
say $bú.raku;  # OUTPUT: «Buf.new(0,1,2,3,4)␤»

$bú = Buf.new( 1..3 );
$bú.reallocate( 10 );
say $bú.raku; # OUTPUT: «Buf.new(1,2,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)␤»