in reply to Re: Idle search for a file-read idiom
in thread Idle search for a file-read idiom

You're assuming that @ARGV contains only the file name. This solution is what tlm suggests to use as an alternative to his quick hack, but he has to set @ARGV first.

Flavio (perl -e 'print(scalar(reverse("\nti.xittelop\@oivalf")))')

Don't fool yourself.

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