SPUG: Reading a whole file into a scalar.

David H. Adler dha at panix.com
Wed Jul 20 19:05:00 PDT 2005


On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:40:10PM -0700, David Dyck wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 at 18:19 -0700, Duane Blanchard <dblanchard at gmail.com>...:
> 
> >  ... I ... need a clever way ...  to read the whole file into a scalar.  ...
> >
> > Someone, please give a little pointer. Thanks,
> 
> There is a great article at
> 
>    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/11/21/slurp.html

There's even a module!

	http://search.cpan.org/~uri/File-Slurp-9999.09/lib/File/Slurp.pm

dha

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