File::Slurp.pm version 0.04 =========================== This module provides subroutines to read or write entire files with a simple call. It also has a subroutine for reading the list of filenames in a directory. In the extras/ directory you can read an article (slurp_article.pod) about file slurping and also run a benchmark (slurp_bench.pl) that compares many ways of slurping/spewing files. This module was first written and owned by David Muir Sharnoff (MUIR on CPAN). I checked out his module and decided to write a new version which would be faster, and with many more features. To that end, David graciously transfered the namespace to me. Since then, I discovered and fixed a bug in the original module's test script (which had only 7 tests), which is included now as t/original.t. This module now has 164 tests in 7 test scripts, and passes on Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X. There have been some comments about the somewhat unusual version number. The problem was that David used a future date (2004.0904) in his version number, and the only way I could get CPAN to index my new module was to make it have a version number higher than the old one, so I chose the 9999 prefix and appended the real revision number to it. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2003 Uri Guttman Licensed the same as Perl.