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+# readfile.awk --- read an entire file at once
+#
+# Original idea by Denis Shirokov, cosmogen@gmail.com, April 2013
+#
+
+function readfile(file,     tmp, save_rs)
+{
+    save_rs = RS
+    RS = "^$"
+    getline tmp < file
+    close(file)
+    RS = save_rs
+
+    return tmp
+}