SPUG: Reading a whole file into a scalar.

Duane Blanchard dblanchard at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 16:10:51 PDT 2005


Thanks, 

Like most of Perl, that makes sense, but isn't something I would
realize on my own.

D

On 7/22/05, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:19:02PM -0700, Duane Blanchard wrote:
> 
> > As I recall, I'll use the 'm' flag to hand the RE more than one
> > line, and '\s' should handle '\n'.
> 
> Specifically, the //m flag just changes what ^ and $ match.  The //s
> flag just changes what . matches.  Either or both may be needed.
> 


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