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in reply to Any downsides to this slurp idiom?

There are a lot of good answers to your question here already, so I thought I would ask another tangentially related one.

Why not use File::Slurp?

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Jim

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Re^2: Any downsides to this slurp idiom?
by hippo (Bishop) on Jun 22, 2018 at 16:21 UTC
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      Huh, very interesting. Sounds like I will probably be switching over to File::Slurper from now on.

      Thanks!

      Jim

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        Path::Tiny's helpers are great and the package has a lot more than slurping to offer.

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Re^2: Any downsides to this slurp idiom?
by haukex (Archbishop) on Jun 22, 2018 at 17:39 UTC
    Why not use File::Slurp?

    One reason is what hippo said, the other being that this is IMO one of those cases where pure Perl does everything I need - I can read lines in list context and I can use layers like :raw, :crlf, and :encoding(...) - there's really no need to load a module. (Unless I'm doing additional stuff, like filename manipulation, in which case I usually use Path::Class, which has slurping and spewing built in.)

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