Re: [FWP] name-a-band

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie@fantasyfarm.com>]

On 16 Jan 00, at 21:21, Andy Lester wrote:

> At 06:40 PM 1/16/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >chomp(my @dict = `cat /usr/dict/words`);
> 
> For those of us who usually use Windows machines, is there any real analog 
> to this?  I guess I could just say
> 
> chomp( my @dict = 'type words.txt');

Well, there's always the dull and not-fun

   open (DICT, "c:\words.txt") or die blah blah...
   chomp (my @dict = <DICT>) ;
   close DICT;

compact, clear, portable.  What more do you want?  [and even with proper 
error checking! :o)]

/Bernie\
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