Well, I started to suggest the below code: 
open(FH,$file) or die "could not open $file\n";
push @someArray, $_ while <FH>;

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But, supprisingly (to me at least), your code ran faster everytime I benchmarked it. I made the file 2500 lines long, and repeated the function 100 times, thinking that this would push the odds in my favor (I seem to recall that file slurping isn't effecient on long files), but your code was faster everytime.

The 15 year old, freshman programmer,
Stephen Rawls

In reply to Re: Filehandles and Arrays by srawls
in thread Filehandles and Arrays by bitswitch

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