Re: [FWP] beauty vs. brains

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com> writes:

Nathan> Jeff Pinyan writes:
>> read(FILE, $file, -s FILE);

Nathan> Oooh, very cute.  So does this work on Windows?  -s returns the number
Nathan> of bytes in the file, but does read() want a character count or a byte
Nathan> count?

You don't even need the size.

  read FILE, $file, 1e20

Adjust the upper bound to suit.  It can't read more than it is. :)

-- 
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
<merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl?  Well, if you insist...
==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_
====   unsubscribe