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