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28 lines
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These are quickie routines that are meant to save a couple
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of lines of code over and over again. They do not do
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anything fancy.
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read_file() does what you would expect. If you are using
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its output in array context, then it returns an array of
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lines. If you are calling it from scalar context, then
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returns the entire file in a single string.
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It croaks()s if it can't open the file.
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write_file() creates or overwrites files.
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append_file() appends to a file.
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overwrite_file() does an in-place update of an existing
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file or creates a new file if it didn't already exist.
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Write_file will also replace a file. The difference is
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that the first that that write_file() does is to trucate
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the file whereas the last thing that overwrite_file() is
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to trucate the file. Overwrite_file() should be used in
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situations where you have a file that always needs to have
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contents, even in the middle of an update.
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read_dir() returns all of the entries in a directory
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except for "." and "..". It croaks if it cannot open the
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directory.
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