File::Slurp::Tiny(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation File::Slurp::Tiny(3)

File::Slurp::Tiny - A simple, sane and efficient file slurper [DISCOURAGED]

version 0.004

 use File::Slurp::Tiny 'read_file';
 my $content = read_file($filename);

This module is discouraged in favor of File::Slurper. While a useful experiment, it turned out to be both too similar to File::Slurp (still containing most problematic features of File::Slurp's interface) and yet not similar enough to be a true drop-in replacement.

Bugs will still be fixed, but new features will probably not be added.

This module provides functions for fast and correct slurping and spewing. All functions are optionally exported.

Reads file $filename into a scalar. By default it returns this scalar. Can optionally take these named arguments:

  • binmode

    Set the layers to read the file with. The default will be something sensible on your platform.

  • buf_ref

    Pass a reference to a scalar to read the file into, instead of returning it by value. This has performance benefits.

  • scalar_ref

    If set to true, "read_file" will return a reference to a scalar containing the file content.

Reads file $filename into a list/array. By default it returns this list. Can optionally take these named arguments:

  • binmode

    Set the layers to read the file with. The default will be something sensible on your platform.

  • array_ref

    Pass a reference to an array to read the lines into, instead of returning them by value. This has performance benefits.

  • chomp

    "chomp" the lines.

Open $filename, and write $content to it. Can optionally take this named argument:

•
binmode

Set the layers to write the file with. The default will be something sensible on your platform.

Open "dirname" and return all entries except "." and "..". Can optionally take this named argument:

•
prefix

This will prepend $dir to the entries

Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Leon Timmermans.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

2015-07-15 perl v5.34.0