Christopher Juckins

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Perl - Reading an entire file into a string

Option 1:

Use File::Slurp
$file_contents = read_file($wget_saved_filename);

Option 2:

# put contents of the file we saved into a variable
open (READ_WGET_FILE, "<$data_dir/$wget_saved_filename");
$file_contents = do { local $/; <READ_WGET_FILE> };