Thanks for the replies so far. My version is 9999.09, which is current. Passing the binmode parameter doesn't change anything.

Here is another test:

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Slurp;

my $file_slurp = read_file('file');
my $normal;
{
    local $/;
    open my $FILE, '<', 'file' or die $!;
    $normal = <$FILE>;
    close $FILE;
}

write_file('slurp', $file_slurp);

open my $NORMAL, '>', 'normal' or die $!;
print $NORMAL $normal;
close $NORMAL;

open my $SLURP_NORMAL, '>', 'slurp_normal' or die $!;
print $SLURP_NORMAL $file_slurp;
close $SLURP_NORMAL;

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Doing this, both normal and slurp end up with the file identical to the original, but slurp_normal has the "added" newlines. So something in File::Slurp is "correcting" whatever it did to begin with when I use write_file. I'm puzzled.

In reply to Re: File::Slurp bug? Should I bother? by chester
in thread File::Slurp bug? Should I bother? by chester

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