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.Thread Previous | Thread Next