file load

[Alan Stewart]

~sdpm~
On 28 Apr 00, at 13:57, Russ Schnapp wrote:

>~sdpm~
>
>To read an entire file into a scalar, turn off the input record 
>separator, $/, comme ca:
>
>my $saveSlash = $/;
>undef $/;
>$string = <FILE>;
>$/ = $saveSlash;
>

or, for fewer variable names:

  {
  local $/ = undef;
  $string = <FILE>;
  }


~sdpm~

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