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    Copyright
    Foreword
    Preface
    Ch. 1. Strings
    Ch. 2. Numbers
    Ch. 3. Dates and Times
    Ch. 4. Arrays
    Ch. 5. Hashes
    Ch. 6. Pattern Matching
    Ch. 7. File Access
    Ch. 8. File Contents
    Introduction
    Recipe 8.1. Reading Lines with Continuation Characters
    Recipe 8.2. Counting Lines (or Paragraphs or Records) in a File
    Recipe 8.3. Processing Every Word in a File
    Recipe 8.4. Reading a File Backward by Line or Paragraph
    Recipe 8.5. Trailing a Growing File
    Recipe 8.6. Picking a Random Line from a File
    Recipe 8.7. Randomizing All Lines
    Recipe 8.8. Reading a Particular Line in a File
    Recipe 8.9. Processing Variable-Length Text Fields
    Recipe 8.10. Removing the Last Line of a File
    Recipe 8.11. Processing Binary Files
    Recipe 8.12. Using Random-Access I/O
    Recipe 8.13. Updating a Random-Access File
    Recipe 8.14. Reading a String from a Binary File
    Recipe 8.15. Reading Fixed-Length Records
    Recipe 8.16. Reading Configuration Files
    Recipe 8.17. Testing a File for Trustworthiness
    Recipe 8.18. Treating a File as an Array
    Recipe 8.19. Setting the Default I/O Layers
    Recipe 8.20. Reading or Writing Unicode from a Filehandle
    Recipe 8.21. Converting Microsoft Text Files into Unicode
    Recipe 8.22. Comparing the Contents of Two Files
    Recipe 8.23. Pretending a String Is a File
    Recipe 8.24. Program: tailwtmp
    Recipe 8.25. Program: tctee
    Recipe 8.26. Program: laston
    Recipe 8.27. Program: Flat File Indexes
    Ch. 9. Directories
    Ch. 10. Subroutines
    Ch. 11. References and Records
    Ch. 12. Packages, Libraries, and Modules
    Ch. 13. Classes, Objects, and Ties
    Ch. 14. Database Access
    Ch. 15. Interactivity
    Ch. 16. Process Management and Communication
    Ch. 17. Sockets
    Ch. 18. Internet Services
    Ch. 19. CGI Programming
    Ch. 20. Web Automation
    Ch. 21. mod_perl
    Ch. 22. XML
    Colophon
    Index
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    Chapter 8. File Contents

    Chapter 8. File Contents

    The most brilliant decision in all of Unix was the choice of a single character for the newline sequence.

    —Mike O'Dell, only half jokingly


      

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