tell and seek may be used to jump around in the single __DATA__ section, allowing pretty flexible access. But let me mention something else.

I know this isn't exactly what you're asking. But there are instances where it might be just as appropriate, and somewhat simpler to use one or more HERE documents instead of the <DATA> filehandle. ...just a thought... there's always more than one way to do it. ;) A HERE doc will be equivilant to slurping an entire file into a scalar. But maybe that's not so bad in some situations. And with multiple HERE docs, the possibilities open up.


Dave


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In reply to Re: multiple __DATA__ && __END__ by davido
in thread multiple __DATA__ && __END__ by Anonymous Monk

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