On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 05:42, Rod Adams wrote:
> Hmm. maybe we just need a function that loads an entire file and returns
> a string of it, then feeds that to eval.
Well, I wasn't getting into the IO stuff, but since you said it, this
crosses a line with many related IO operations. I would call that
function "read".
Given no parameters the read method on a filehandle (or procedural read
function, given a filehandle) is a convenient "getrecord", so given:
read :file("foo")
you have your "read a whole file" (assuming that the default
record-separator for such an operation would be undef).
Thus:
eval read :file("foo");
There you have it.
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