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Answer: How do I read an entire file into a string?
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Q&A > files > How do I read an entire file into a string? contributed by particle

nothing i know beats this for speed. there's a node on this technique somewhere around here...

my $file = 'sample.txt';
{
  local *FH;
  -f FH and sysread FH, my $file, -s FH;
}

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