Derek B. Smith wrote:
: ## Below is better pratice ##
:
: sub getfile {
: my $filename = shift;
: open F, "< $filename" or die "open failed $!"
: my $contents;
: { local $/ = undef; # Read entire file at once
: $contents = <F>; # Return file as one line
: }
: close F;
: return $contents;
: }
:
:
: I read an excerpt from
: http://perl.plover.com/local.html#2_Localized_Filehandles
Curiously, you do not actually localize the file
handle in getfile().
: and was wondering if this holds true regarding
: localizing $/ and setting it to undef in Perl 5.8.x?
If you do not localize the $/ operator then you will
change it for the rest of the script. That might be a
problem for other I/O operations which fail to set it.
In 5.8.x this function might better be written like
this, but I lack the experience to call it a best
practice.
sub slurp_file {
# open file for read or die
my $file = shift;
open my $fh, '<', $file or die qq(Cannot open "$file": $!);
# slurp file
local $/ = undef;
# return file as scalar
return <$fh>;
}
HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson
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