>>>>> "BFY" == Brian F Yulga <byu...@langly.dyndns.org> writes:
BFY> My apologies if I'm beating a dead horse here, but I'm new to Perl and
BFY> thought of a slightly different approach:
BFY> my $searchrx = qr/whatever/; # or q/whatever/ if you don't need regexp
BFY> @ARGV or die qq/you didn't specify a filename\n/;
BFY> open FH, q/</, shift @ARGV or die qq/file open error: $!/;
BFY> $_ = join q//, <FH>;
that is very slow and clunky. perl could slurp the file for you if you
set $/ to undef. or better yet, use File::Slurp to do it
BFY> close FH;
BFY> if ( ! m/$searchrx/s ) {
why are you using m//? the m isn't needed if you use // for delimiters
the OP wants to know if a file has something or not, not to print each
line.
uri
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