Re: Quick question: how to slurp a file?

["Abigail" <abigail@foad.org>]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:48:11PM -0400, Susan J. Talbutt wrote:
> We're beating our heads against a wall here. The office mate swears perl
> has a way to read in an entire file in one gulp (as opposed to the more
> familiar <> operator). 
> 
> Can anyone confirm or deny?

What do you mean "as opposed to"? I would use <> to read in an entire file
in one go.

    my $text = do {local $/; <>};

Or if you have the file name in some scalar $file:

    my $text = do {local (@ARGV, $/) = $file; <ARGV>};


Abigail
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