Re: How to read from a file instead from a hard coding list.

Replace

my @words=qw( portion answers printer program );
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with

chomp(my @words = `cat /path/to/file`);
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and you should be done.

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Re^2: How to read from a file instead from a hard coding list. by afoken (Chancellor) on Apr 25, 2012 at 10:33 UTC
my @words = `cat /path/to/file` Are you sure the OP uses some kind of unix? Windows has no `cat` command out of the box. And by the way: Why spawn a new process to read a file when perl can read the file without assistance? File::Slurp does a nice job. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: How to read from a file instead from a hard coding list. by JavaFan (Canon) on Apr 25, 2012 at 10:49 UTC
Windows has no cat command out of the box. Does Windows has perl out of the box? Why spawn a new process to read a file when perl can read the file without assistance? Who cares about a new process? It isn't that we're doing this a billion times in a loop, and considering we're going to read a couple of Mb from disk, I don't think creating a new process is going to form a bottleneck. File::Slurp does a nice job. And that one comes with Windows out of a box? Really, you need a module to read in a file? What's wrong with `chomp(my @words = do {local(@ARGV, $/) = "/path/to/file"; <>});` [download] or some other equivalent lines if you're willing to spend more keystrokes than `cat` is taking? Why is that using a module to do this is ok, but using a program isn't?	[reply] [d/l] [select]