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mackenga · Mar 24th, 2005, 9:20 AM

You could slurp and split the file, too; to get a list of the lines in a file, you could do:

local $/;
my @lines = split("\n", <IN>);

That 'local $/;' line makes $/, the input record separator, locally undefined so you can 'slurp' the whole file rather than a line at a time.

Mar 24th, 2005, 9:20 AM	#3
mackenga Professional Programmer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 317 Rep Power: 4	You could slurp and split the file, too; to get a list of the lines in a file, you could do: (Toggle Plain Text) local $/; my @lines = split("\n", <IN>); local $/; my @lines = split("\n", <IN>); That 'local $/;' line makes $/, the input record separator, locally undefined so you can 'slurp' the whole file rather than a line at a time.