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in thread file contents as a part of code?

You teach one 'do' idiom, but then you skip the other power of 'do' and go the long way around. 
die if not -f '/tmp/MY_DATA';
gnuplot({ "title" => "My Trend",
          "output type" => "png",
          "output file" => "$TMPDIR/trend-$$.png"},
          do '/tmp/MY_DATA'
       );

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(Not that this is an endorsement of either approach.)

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Re^4: file contents as a part of code?
by djwaddel (Initiate) on Aug 17, 2005 at 16:03 UTC
    This worked like a charm! You guys are geniuses! Thanks for all your suggestions, you guys may have saved the few hairs on my head that I have not pulled out yet ;) Thanks again!!! Dave
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