Re: How do I read an entire file into a string?

This is conventional:

{
  local $/ = undef;
  open FILE, "myfile" or die "Couldn't open file: $!";
  binmode FILE;
  $string = <FILE>;
  close FILE;
}
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But if you are working with large files (or a large number of them) you might consider using File::Slurp, which, in my case, decreased the runtime of my script from 40-45 minutes to 3 minutes.

Uri Guttman (the maintainer of File-Slurp) wrote a pretty exhaustive article on slurping.

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Re: Answer: How do I read an entire file into a string? by Grygonos (Chaplain) on Aug 18, 2004 at 14:28 UTC
It is worth noting that File::Slurp does NOT support `binmode` Grygonos	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Answer: How do I read an entire file into a string? by bmann (Priest) on Aug 18, 2004 at 20:17 UTC
It is worth noting that File::Slurp does NOT support binmode Are you sure? From the pod: `If you set the binmode option, then the file will be slurped in binary + mode. my $bin_data = read_file( $bin_file, binmode => ':raw' ) ;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]