Slurping a file into a string in Perl

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Published on 2008-10-15T21:55:47Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 11:33 UTC
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Yes, There's More Than One Way To Do It™, but what is the most canonical, most efficient, and most concise methods to read an entire file into a string? (The latter two are perhaps at odds.)

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