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in reply to Slurp

I question the need for a module that encapsulates a one-liner -- especially for a task as simple as this. That said, I do appreciate the @ARGV hack. That's pretty clever, even if it does pose error-handling problems.

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Re: Re: Slurp
by Juerd (Abbot) on Dec 30, 2002 at 21:07 UTC

    That said, I do appreciate the @ARGV hack. That's pretty clever, even if it does pose error-handling problems.

    I too appreciate the @ARGV hack. It handler errors by die()ing with a useful message. See also 204874 for lots of discussion about it.

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