you know what, i am lucky i found out how to do this lol. because i just tried to pack almost 1000 lines of code into an exe and it wasnt working right when opening files. the function i was trying to use, was going to open a file like 
 
my $file = PerlApp::get_bound_file("patch_file")
open ( my $patch, '<', $file );

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but what i needed to do was open it with 
my $file = PerlApp::get_bound_file("patch_file");
open ( my $patch, '<', \$file );

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the key defference is the "\". its a good thing i figured this out tho.

In reply to Re: Best way to read a file into memory and use normal operation on memory file? by james28909
in thread Best way to read a file into memory and use normal operation on memory file? by james28909

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