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+# Copyright 2013-2020 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class PerlFileSlurp(PerlPackage):
+    """File::Slurp - Simple and Efficient Reading/Writing/Modifying of Complete
+       Files"""
+
+    homepage = "https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Slurp"
+    url      = "https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/C/CA/CAPOEIRAB/File-Slurp-9999.32.tar.gz"
+
+    version('9999.32', sha256='4c3c21992a9d42be3a79dd74a3c83d27d38057269d65509a2f555ea0fb2bc5b0')