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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Reading a file into a string
Message-ID: <11244@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 31 Jan 91 02:17:44 GMT
References: <11235@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <97130173@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <120644@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Jan31.012957.25993@convex.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991Jan31.012957.25993@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
: From the keyboard of rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim):
: :(7) @str = <FILE>; $str = join(//,"@str");
: 
: If you didn't set $" to null, you'll get the "wrong" answer there, 
: i.e. extra spaces by default.  Skip the quotes if you want.

If you skip the quotes you get the wrong answer too.  The value of // is
likely to be 1.

Larry