[MacPerl] Read entire file?

[Jim Correia <correia@barebones.com>]

So I'm a c programmer, and my perl book is at the office.

What is the best (fastest, clearest code) to read an entire file into a
variable?  I want to preserve whatever line endings were in the original
file so I don't want to read it by lines.  Right now I am reading by
chunks because I can't seem to find a function that will return the size
in bytes of the file on disk...

Thanks,
Jim

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Jim Correia                                Bare Bones Software, Inc.
correia@barebones.com                     <http://web.barebones.com>

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