Re: Restriction on getting multiline data into a string

By setting $/ to a reference to an integer, you can control how many bytes are read in each use of the diamond operator.

local $/ = \65536;

my $scalar = <FILE>;

print length $scalar;

# prints 65536 (assuming :raw)
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Re: Re: Restriction on getting multiline data into a string by bart (Canon) on Nov 19, 2003 at 10:35 UTC
In the risk of stating the obvious, I'd like to point out that this is documented in perlvar (search for the section for "$/"). I recall that this is a fairly new addition to Perl, but at least, it is documented to work for perl 5.005_03. So it's not that recent. :)	[reply]
Re^2: Restriction on getting multiline data into a string by strictvars (Sexton) on Apr 13, 2005 at 15:33 UTC
Thanks for the tip below. ++ `local $/ = \65536;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]