in reply to pattern match on entire file

If the user input is always going to be straight text rather than a regular expression, then it may be faster to use grep.

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Re: pattern match on entire file
by s0ttle (Scribe) on Nov 15, 2001 at 03:23 UTC
    You can shorten this: 
    @file = <FILE>;
$temp = join('',@file);

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    to just one line: 
    $file = join '', <FILE>;

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    -tengo mas que aprender
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