$f = new File("/home/rappleto/junk.txt");  	# record the filename
$f.unlink();					# destroy the file
$f.create();					# create the file
$f.setContent("I love cheese");			# replace content with this data
die "Bad length " if ($f.length() != 13);	# get file length

$text = $f.getfile() # reads the whole file	# read the whole file