in reply to Getopt, regexen, and newlines
Just a note:
$contents = do{local $/; <FILEHANDLE>;};
Should use less memory and (I believe) run faster than:
@contents = <FILEHANDLE>; $contents = join "", @contents;
P.S. see perlvar for info on $/
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