[wplug] Slightly OT- Perl issue
beer
beer at cmu.edu
Thu Mar 10 10:26:25 EST 2005
I know this is a little off-topic but I also know there are a number of perl hackers in this group so I figured I'd start here first.
So I am trying to read a file into a scalar. The typical newbie approach works fine:
open FILE "<filename";
while( <FILE> ) {
$scalar .= $_;
}
close FILE;
But if I try to slurp the file in:
open FILE "<filename";
$scalar = <filename>;
I end up not getting all of the data.
The bigger picture of this code is this:
1. Connect to database and retrieve records which contain files.
2. Create tar archive and insert files into it.
3. Gzip tar archive
4. Read archive into scalar
I do have a working version of the code but I am trying to polish the solution. If anyone has some insights I'd love to hear them. :)
Thanks
-b
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