SPUG: Reading a whole file into a scalar.

[Duane Blanchard]

I just found this, is this the best practice?

while ( <COLOURS> )
{
  $myfile = $myfile . $_;
}

Duane

On 7/20/05, Duane Blanchard <dblanchard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi gang,
> 
> I'm too tired to think straight and too tired to keep looking on the
> 'Net. I want to match things like 'line\s+that' in the example file
> below.
> 
> <file>
> this is a line
> that is a line
> </file>
> 
> What has worn me out today is not realizing that I'll never match
> across lines of a file if I only read one line at a time. So, I either
> need a clever way to match across elements of an array or hash table,
> or (more likely) to read the whole file into a scalar. As I recall,
> I'll use the 'm' flag to hand the RE more than one line, and '\s'
> should handle '\n'.
> 
> Someone, please give a little pointer. Thanks,
> 
> D
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Duane Blanchard
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