Re (tilly) 4: Slurp a file

That will be slower though.

The reason I suggested it is in case someone wanted to use your SuperSplit with tied filehandles. I would not depend on a tied filehandle correctly paying attention to $/, so the join makes sense.

But if you care about performance or have good reason to believe that people won't use tied filehandles, then avoid join.

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(tye)Re3: Slurp a file by tye (Sage) on Jan 08, 2001 at 22:55 UTC
For the best of both worlds, use both: `my $contents= do { local($/); join '', <INPUT> };` [download] should work quickly for file handles that pay attention to $/ and work about as quickly as possible for those that don't. - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply] [d/l]
Re: (tye)Re3: Slurp a file by jeroenes (Priest) on Jan 08, 2001 at 23:04 UTC
Modified davorg's code accordingly. Some improvement, clearly: `Benchmark: timing 50000 iterations of hybrid, join, slash... hybrid: 4 secs ( 2.90 usr 0.38 sys = 3.28 cpu) join: 6 secs ( 5.65 usr 0.35 sys = 6.00 cpu) slash: 3 secs ( 1.95 usr 0.38 sys = 2.33 cpu)` [download] Cheers, Jeroen I was dreaming of guitarnotes that would irritate an executive kind of guy (FZ)	[reply] [d/l]


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