Re: help slurping a file

Hello,

My question is, why can't I slurp in the entire file?

Because you're fiddling with things that ought not be fiddled with ;p (IE $\)

instead:

use File::Slurp;

my @lines = read_file($file);

or you can use Perl 6's slurp() via a Perl6 module (perl6::Slurp maybe ???) see cpan for details.
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