Perl::Critic::Policy::InputOutput::ProhibitJoinedReadline.3pm

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NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::InputOutput::ProhibitJoinedReadline - Use "local $/ = undef" or File::Slurp instead of joined readline.

AFFILIATION

This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

DESCRIPTION

It's really easy to slurp a whole filehandle in at once with "join q{}, <$fh">, but that's inefficient --- Perl goes to the trouble of splitting the file into lines only to have that work thrown away.

To save performance, either slurp the filehandle without splitting like so:

   do { local $/ = undef; <$fh> }

or use File::Slurp, which is even faster.

Note that if the "ProhibitPunctuationVars" policy is also in effect, it will complain about the use of $/ in the line above. In that case, write this instead:

   use English '-no_match_vars';
 
   do { local $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR = undef; <$fh> };

CONFIGURATION

This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.

CAVEATS

Due to a bug in the current version of PPI (v1.119_03) and earlier, the readline operator is often misinterpreted as less-than and greater-than operators after a comma. Therefore, this policy only works well on the empty filehandle, "<>". When PPI is fixed, this should just start working.

CREDITS

Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation.

AUTHOR

Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org> Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Chris Dolan. Many rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module