File::Spew - a figment of my imagination?

mpersico has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: File::Spew - a figment of my imagination? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 09, 2015 at 16:31 UTC
You might be thinking of IO::All, but I second the recommendation for Path::Tiny for file tree work.	[reply]
Re: File::Spew - a figment of my imagination? by RichardK (Parson) on Sep 09, 2015 at 16:40 UTC
File::Slurp has a write_file method, doesn't that do what you want?	[reply]
Re^2: File::Spew - a figment of my imagination? by 1nickt (Canon) on Sep 10, 2015 at 13:57 UTC
File::Slurp is broken, especially with regard to character encoding and I/O layers. It should be eschewed. File::Slurper is a modern replacement, or use Path::Tiny. The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]
Re^3: File::Spew - a figment of my imagination? by RichardK (Parson) on Sep 10, 2015 at 16:00 UTC
OH! Is it still broken 4+ years later?	[reply]
Re^4: File::Spew - a figment of my imagination? by dasgar (Priest) on Sep 10, 2015 at 16:36 UTC
Re: File::Spew - a figment of my imagination? by 1nickt (Canon) on Sep 09, 2015 at 16:05 UTC
No idea what you were thinking about :-) But you can use Path::Tiny for slurping and spewing. The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]
Re: File::Spew - a figment of my imagination? by mpersico (Monk) on Sep 09, 2015 at 16:40 UTC
Ugh - Now I remember. I was going to submit a patch to File::Slurp such that: `*spew = \&write_file` Never mind...	[reply] [d/l]
Re: File::Spew - a figment of my imagination? by Laurent_R (Canon) on Sep 09, 2015 at 16:11 UTC
Hum, what is your data looking like? A scalar? An array? Some other data structure? In many cases, you don't need to unroll a loop, and in some cases you can just print the array within quote marks to the file handle.	[reply]