Hi -- I'm looking for a routine to encapsulate slurp. If no filename is given, I'd like to slurp STDIN. The code below doesn't work in this case; can someone point out why? Thanks! rkg 
use strict;
use FileHandle;

sub slurp {
    my $fh = new FileHandle;
    my $file = 'STDIN';
    $file = $_[0] if $_[0];
    $fh->open($file) or die "Can't open $file: $!";
    $fh->input_record_separator(undef);
    my $slurp = <$fh>;
    $fh->close or die "Can't close $file: $!";
    $slurp;
}

print slurp();

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