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in thread Looking for pointers or optimizations.

And you could read a file directly in a scalar...

Depending on the current value of the input record separator, you might only get one record. In fact, you'll probably only get one record.

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Re^8: Looking for pointers or optimizations.
by SerZKO (Beadle) on Aug 22, 2012 at 06:16 UTC
    ++ for pointing out this Chromatic.

    But if you just add undef $/; before reading file, then you get it all in a scalar variable 

    undef $/; 
my $words = <$fh>;

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