Perl::Critic::Policy::InputOutput::ProhibitJoinedReadline - Use local $/ = undef or File::Slurp instead of joined readline.
local $/ = undef
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.
It's really easy to slurp a whole filehandle in at once with join q{}, <$fh>, but that's inefficient -- Perl goes to the trouble of splitting the file into lines only to have that work thrown away.
join q{}, <$fh
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:
ProhibitPunctuationVars
$/
use English '-no_match_vars'; do { local $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR = undef; <$fh> };
This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.
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.
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Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation.
Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>
Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Chris Dolan. Many rights reserved.
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