Re: Binary files

.= would work better so you're not overriding what you just read in.

However, you really want something like:

my $xlsfile = do {
    local $\;
    <XLSFILE>;
};
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Or, just disregard everything and go with File::Slurp. :-)

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Re^2: Binary files by elusion (Curate) on Mar 16, 2005 at 15:42 UTC
Actually, you'd better use `$/` (not `$\`) to slurp a file. `my $xlsfile = do { local $/; <XLSFILE>; }` [download] elusion : http://matt.diephouse.com	[reply] [d/l] [select]