What's the best way to open and read a file in Perl?

Question

Please note - I am not looking for the \"right\" way to open/read a file, or the way I should open/read a file every single time. I am just interested to find out what way m

Answer 1

If your files are small enough that reading the whole thing into memory is feasible, use File::Slurp. It reads and writes full files with a very simple API, plus it does all the error checking so you don't have to.