Re: writing get_script as an external routine callable by C

"BM" == Ben Morrow <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> my $filename = 'book1.txt';
>> open(my $fh, '<', $filename) or
>> die "cannot open $filename for reading: $!";
>> my @books;

BM> chomp( my @books = <$fh> );

BM> If you prefer, you can expand that to three statements:

BM> my @books;
BM> @books = <$fh>;
BM> chomp @books;

BM> You can also use File::Slurp::read_file, which will handle opening the
BM> file, chomping the lines and closing the file for you.

read_file doesn't (yet) chomp lines. that option is in the todo
list. but it does make it easier to read in a file as lines. this should
work fine:

use File::Slurp ;
chomp( my @books = read_file( $file_name ) ) ;

uri

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