in reply to File Input and Output

is there some way to read in an input & store it character by character?

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Re: Re: File Input and Output
by ariels (Curate) on Jul 24, 2001 at 14:56 UTC
    getc. Note well the documentation -- it's still buffered input!

    ObSampleCode:

    while ($_ = getc STDIN) {
  $_ = ord $_;
  printf "%02x %c\n", $_, 32 <= $_ && $_ < 127 ? $_ : ord '?';
}

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