I see you are careful to *fix* the value ot $/ before you finish. A better way is to locally scope the changes to $/ using local - then you don't have to remember to fix it. This goes for all the special vars:

# make a block and locally scope a var
{
    local $/;
    # $/ is now undef so glob a file in
} 
# now $/ is back to normal as the changes are scoped to the block abov
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Often you have a convenient block to scope within. If not make one as shown above.

cheers

tachyon

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