Hi Uri, On Saturday 07 May 2011 07:31:28 Uri Guttman wrote: > File::Slurp .17 beta is at: > > sysarch.com/File-Slurp-9999.17.tar.gz > > this has a major new set of functions that should prove popular, > edit_file and edit_file_lines. those both read a file into $_, call a > code block and then write the file back out. edit_file reads the whole > file into $_ and edit_file_lines reads each line into $_ and calls the > code block for each line. they are equvilent to using -0777 -pi and -pi > on the command line. you can the ability to edit a file with one simple > call. see the pod for more info and examples. >
thanks for the new release. edit_file seems useful. I had thought of adding something similar to IO::All in the past. Just a question - how well can read_file and their friends handle encodings/character-sets? Reading a file using binmode $fh, ":encoding(utf-8)" (or whatever) would be a major dealbreaker for me (and many other people), because I cannot assume that the data that a file reads is in 8-bit binary data. See: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Regards, Shlomi Fish ( שלומי פיש ) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ UNIX Fortune Cookies - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ And the top story for today: wives live longer than husbands because they are not married to women. -- Colin Mochrie in "Who's Line is it, Anyway?" Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
