Chas. Owens wrote:
my $xml = do { open my $fh, "<", $filename or die "could not open $filename: $!"; local $/; <$fh>; };
I would write that as my $xml; { open my $fh, "<", $filename or die "could not open $filename: $!"; local $/; $xml= <$fh>; } because it puts the file contents in application memory only once. -- Ruud -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/