On 2010-09-02 21:15, Chas. Owens wrote:

my $string = do {
    open my $fh, "<", "filename" or die $!;
    local $/;
    <$fh>;
};

To make it use less memory, write it like this:

my $string;
{
   open my $fh, "<", "filename" or die $!;
   local $/;
   $string = <$fh>;
};

--
Ruud

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