in reply to __DATA__, seek, and tell

Why not just load the data into a variable once and reuse the variable instead of reusing DATA?

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Re^2: __DATA__, seek, and tell
by gamache (Friar) on Oct 16, 2007 at 15:46 UTC
    I'm using DATA because I would like to be able to edit the Perl file on disk, and have it reload the changes when I tell it to.
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      Replacing parts of your programs sounds really ugly and dangerous. I can easily envision problems with global my variable, for example. Seems to me a frest start using exec $^X, $0, @ARGV; would be a much better way of achieving that.

      If you're determined to stay on your course, why now keep the reloadable code in a seperate file and just do that file instead of messing with DATA. Keep in mind that what you are doing with DATA is an undocumented side-effect of the implementation of DATA.

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