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On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 2:55 PM Oodler 577 via perl5-porters < perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote: > * Scott Baker <scott@perturb.org> [2021-09-29 08:37:57 -0700]: > > > On 9/29/21 08:21, Dan Book wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 11:00 AM Tomasz Konojacki <me@xenu.pl> wrote: > > > > > > "-0777" flag is the usual way to read the whole file at once > > > (instead of > > > line by line) in one-liners. > > > > > > I feel this isn't ideal. "-0" is a bad flag. It's overly general, > > > users > > > rarely need $/ to be set to anything other than undef or "\n". > > > Also, the > > > input record separator has to be specified as an octal number, > > > which is > > > weird. The fact that the numbers above 0o377 are special-cased to > mean > > > "undef" makes it even more confusing. > > > > > > Slurping is an extremely common operation and it deserves its own > > > one-letter flag. I propse "-g" (mnemonics: gobble, grab, gulp). I > wish > > > it could be "-s", but sadly it's already taken :( > > > > > > > > > I think this is an excellent idea. This sort of processing using Perl > > > oneliners is extremely common and spread across the internet, and the > > > '-0777' flag is a constant source of confusion. Ideally perl would have > > > support for long options so we didn't have to take up the dwindling > > > one-letter options, but in the meantime, they are not in high demand so > > > IMO it's fine to use one for this. > > Seems like anything would need to consider also -n and -l, any others? I'm > not > a perl oneliner wizard by any means, but these two came up in my google. > -0777 interacts with these options in a reasonable and expected way, and the proposed -g would do the same. -DanThread Previous | Thread Next