A short converter script for people who want to write their post in Markdown but convert it to Wordpress broken HTML

convert.p6

sub paragraphs { $^s.split: /\n\n+/ }
sub is-code-block { $^s ~~ /^ ' ' ** 4/ }
sub escape { $^s.trans: ['>', '<', '&'] => ['&gt;', '&lt;', '&amp;'] }

for paragraphs(slurp.trim) -> $_ is copy {
    if is-code-block($_) {
        say "<code><pre>{ .indent(-4).&escape }</code></pre>";
    }
    else {
        .=subst(:g, / '[' (<-[\]]>+) '](' (<-[)]>+) ')' /, -> $/ { qq[<a href="$1">{$0}</a>] });
        .=subst(:g, / '`' (<-[`]>+) '`' /, -> $/ { qq[<code>{$0}</code>] });
        .say;
    }
    say "";
}