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Sep 5, 2000, 11:05 PM

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How do I read the whole content of the file into a single variable?

I tried using read() but it returns a value lesser than the actual bytes. Will this affect the actual characters being read?

Anybody please help.

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fashimpaur
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Sep 6, 2000, 4:07 AM

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Re: how to assign... [In reply to]	Can't Post

Shinned,

May not be the best way, but try this:

<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<HR>

my $fileVar;

open (INFILE, "myfile.txt");
while (defined($line = <INFILE> )){
$fileVar .= $line;
}
close (INFILE);

</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

HTH,

Dennis

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Sep 6, 2000, 4:22 AM

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Re: how to assign... [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thank you very much for your response. You see, while waiting for anybody to answer, I was able to figure it out.

I have already tried your code but I was looking for a code that will not go into a loop structure.

my solution was :

<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<HR>

$/ = "0777";
open(SRC, "$infile");
$whole = <SRC>;

</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

again, thank you very much for taking time to reply.

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Sep 7, 2000, 10:16 AM

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Re: how to assign... [In reply to]	Can't Post

<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<HR>

{
local $/;
$whole = <FILE>;
}</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Has the benefit of not leaving $/ modified.

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Sep 11, 2000, 2:52 AM

Post #5 of 5 (7788 views)

Re: how to assign... [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thank you both for having taking time to reply. It really helped me a lot.

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