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

I once used the

open (FILEIN, "<", $inputfile) or die "...";
my @FileContents = ;
close FILEIN;

boilerplate regularly. Nowadays, I use File::Slurp for small files that I want to hold completely in memory, and Tie::File for big files that I want to scalably address and/or files that I want to change in place.