>>>>> "R" == Ruud <[email protected]> writes:
R> Thomas Bätzler wrote:
>> my $data = do {
>> local $/ = undef;
>> <$fh>;
>> };
R> Especially for big files, that is better written as:
define big. most files are still text or similar and not big by today's
ram sizes. slurping in a megabyte is nothing today. back in the day it
would have caused major disk thrashing.
R> my $data;
R> { local $/;
R> $data = <$fh>;
R> }
even better as:
use File::Slurp ;
my $data = read_file( $file ) ;
faster, cleaner, no need for $/ and local.
uri
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