slurp – Tarik Billa

Why is “slurping” a file not a good practice?

July 23, 2023 by Tarik

Again and again we see questions asking about reading a text file to process it line-by-line, that use variations of read, or readlines, which pull the entire file into memory in one action. The documentation for read says: Opens the file, optionally seeks to the given offset, then returns length bytes (defaulting to the rest … Read more

In Perl, how can I read an entire file into a string?

December 16, 2022 by Tarik

I would do it like this: my $file = “index.html”; my $document = do { local $/ = undef; open my $fh, “<“, $file or die “could not open $file: $!”; <$fh>; }; Note the use of the three-argument version of open. It is much safer than the old two- (or one-) argument versions. Also … Read more

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