Re^4: Search function for guestbook history?

Ok, BrowserUK...I've looked...done some reading... and the part I still don't follow is the simple "slurp" subroutine. Could you/others translate it to English a bit more, please? The rest of the code I believe I can understand, at least for now.

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Re^5: Search function for guestbook history? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 10, 2006 at 22:34 UTC
It is basically a reconstruction (from memory, and incorrectly) of the slurp idiom discribed and discussed in Cheap idioms. I suggest you read that thread as it goes into great detail and discusses all the pros and cons. I would also recommend that if you are using the one I (mis)typed in my posts (as a substitute for the one I call from my personal Utils library), that you either replace it with the final concensus form from that thread, or just install File::Slurp and have done with it. Update: Indeed, I strongly suggest that you get File::Slurp and substitute it's `slurp()` routine. It is far faster than the slurp routine in the Cheap Idioms thread. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal? "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^5: Search function for guestbook history?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 10, 2006 at 22:34 UTC

It is basically a reconstruction (from memory, and incorrectly) of the slurp idiom discribed and discussed in Cheap idioms. I suggest you read that thread as it goes into great detail and discusses all the pros and cons.

I would also recommend that if you are using the one I (mis)typed in my posts (as a substitute for the one I call from my personal Utils library), that you either replace it with the final concensus form from that thread, or just install File::Slurp and have done with it.

Update: Indeed, I strongly suggest that you get File::Slurp and substitute it's slurp() routine. It is far faster than the slurp routine in the Cheap Idioms thread.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

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