Answer: How do I read an entire file into a string? contributed by Anonymous Monk This is conventional: { local $/ = undef; open FILE, "myfile" or die "Couldn't open file: $!"; binmode FILE; $string = <FILE>; close FILE; } [download] But if you are working with large files (or a large number of them) you might consider using File::Slurp, which, in my case, decreased the runtime of my script from 40-45 minutes to 3 minutes. Uri Guttman (the maintainer of File-Slurp) wrote a pretty exhaustive article on slurping.

Answer: How do I read an entire file into a string? contributed by vroom Unset $/, the Input Record Separator, to make <> give you the whole file at once. { local $/=undef; open FILE, "myfile" or die "Couldn't open file: $!"; $string = <FILE>; close FILE; } [download]

Answer: How do I read an entire file into a string? contributed by marto Reading this in 2018, use Path::Tiny (as mentioned above) rather than File::Slurp (see rt://83126 for details)

Answer: How do I read an entire file into a string? contributed by DigitalKitty If you know the size of the file, you could use the read function: my $size = 2000; # or whatever open( FH, "sample.txt") or die("Error: $!\n"); read( FH, $data, $size ); close FH; [download]

Answer: How do I read an entire file into a string? contributed by reisinge my $contents = do { local(@ARGV, $/) = $file; <> }; [download] Also check out answers/discussions on SO, such as this one.

Answer: How do I read an entire file into a string? contributed by choroba Using Path::Tiny: my $contents = path($file_path)->slurp; [download]

Answer: 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; } [download]

Answer: How do I read an entire file into a string? contributed by bdalzell This is slightly different code for using File::Slurp: use strict; use File::Slurp; my $text = read_file($file); [download] Be sure to read the "slurp_article", available in the distro under "Documentation" (i.e. under the "extras" directory). And remember that if you cut and paste sample code from a web page, some of the punctuation characters may not be formatted for your system so if you get an error from cut and pasted code try typing it in directly to your program.

Answer: How do I read an entire file into a string? contributed by fyiman I'm reading a text file on Windows. I used the first solution on this page and then print the result in $string : { local $/ = undef; open FILE, "myfile" or die "Couldn't open file: $!"; binmode FILE; $string = <FILE>; close FILE; } print $string; [download] I noticed that the "end-of-line" for each line is changed from "0d 0a" to "0d 0d 0a" I found that if I removed the "binmode FILE;" statement, "end-of-line" for each line is correctly printed as "0d 0a": { local $/ = undef; open FILE, "myfile" or die "Couldn't open file: $!"; $string = <FILE>; close FILE; } print $string; [download]

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