Re: help slurping a file

On Oct 28, 2005, at 16:16, JupiterHost.Net wrote:

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);

Wrong, that code assumes $file has the runtime platform conventions, which is not the case.

You'll end up with the entire file as a single string in @lines, not the expected array of lines. The reason is that \015 is the line separator in the file. Hence, seen as a text file in a Linux box it has only one line.

To make it work with File::Slurp that way we need to do precisely what you said we ought not to: fiddle with $/ before the call to read_file().

-- fxn

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