Simple IO Handling with IO::All (O'Reilly)

[Posted March 17, 2004 by cook]

Brian Ingerson explains Perl's IO::All on O'Reilly. "Being quite satisfied with my new idiom, I sat down for a few more weeks, and wrote a few hundred lines of code, and hid it in a module called IO::All and uploaded it to CPAN. Now I can do my 5-line slurp in 1 line. Phew!"