If you must use a module for this, may I suggest Path::Tiny or File::Slurper?

While those modules are nice, I personally find it a bit difficult to keep track of all of the different modules' opinions on how to best slurp files. And considering that slurping a file takes at most two lines of pure Perl code and I remain in full control over layers etc., I no longer see the need to load a module just for that. The following only requires knowing some of the details of layers, such as knowing the effect of ${^OPEN}, using :encoding(UTF-8) instead of :utf8, and that UTF-16 files on Windows require the layers :raw:encoding(UTF-16):crlf (the latter two being documented in PerlIO and "open" Best Practices).

my $all = do { open my $fh, '<', $filename or die "$filename: $!";
    local $/; <$fh> };

my @lines = do { open my $fh, '<', $filename or die "$filename: $!";
    <$fh> }; chomp @lines;

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In reply to Re^4: Extracting selected fields form file record by haukex
in thread Extracting selected fields form file record by Anonymous Monk

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