>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 Welp, you could do: open(FILE, "<$path_to_file"); my @loaded_file = <FILE>; close(FILE); Is that what you meant? Morbus Iff .sig on other machine. http://www.disobey.com/ http://www.gamegrene.com/ # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org