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my @lines = <DATA>;
if ($lines[-1] =~ /^##/) {
  pop @lines;
}
my $slurp = join '', @lines;
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Note that this will keep the entire file twice in memory (except for the very last line if it starts with ##). That's ok if you have only small files or large amounts of memory. But for large files and limited memory, this may get you into an out-of-memory situation.

See also perlfaq3 and perlfaq5.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^2: Delete last line of file with regex by afoken
in thread Delete last line of file with regex by nysus

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