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.
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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"; <>});
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] [Watch: Dir/Any] [d/l] [select] |