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2021-9-30 0:00 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 feel slurping is a very general operation in this age.
For example, HTML.
HTML is not a line to line protocol. the whole file needs to be parsed by
regular expression.
<h1>
Foo
</h1>
And the available memory is large enough.
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