lejon

There are two basic alternatives for file slurping:

my @lines = <FH>;

Or…

{
    local( $/, *FH ) ;
    open( FH, $file ) or die "sudden flaming death\n";
    $text = <FH>;
}

A small comment on Perl 6, it has finally managed to get it right!

 my $content = slurp $filename;
# or
my @lines = slurp $filename;

Does it get easier than that? Shall we look at the Java code for the corresponding operation? No better not, the post will become so long that noone will have time to read it!