⭐ in reply to How do I read an entire file into a string?

Unset $/, the Input Record Separator, to make <> give you the whole file at once. 
{
  local $/=undef;
  open FILE, "myfile" or die "Couldn't open file: $!";
  $string = <FILE>;
  close FILE;
}

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