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+#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
+
+use strict ;
+use File::Slurp ;
+
+use Carp ;
+use POSIX qw( :fcntl_h ) ;
+use Test::More tests => 1 ;
+
+# in case SEEK_SET isn't defined in older perls. it seems to always be 0
+
+BEGIN {
+
+	*SEEK_SET = sub { 0 } unless defined \&SEEK_SET ;
+}
+
+SKIP: {
+
+	eval { require B } ;
+
+	skip <<TEXT, 1 if $@ ;
+B.pm not found in this Perl. This will cause slurping of
+the DATA handle to fail.
+TEXT
+
+	test_data_list_slurp() ;
+}
+
+exit ;
+
+
+sub test_data_list_slurp {
+
+	my $data_seek = tell( \*DATA );
+
+# first slurp in the lines
+
+	my @slurp_lines = read_file( \*DATA ) ;
+
+# now seek back and read all the lines with the <> op and we make
+# golden data sets
+
+	seek( \*DATA, $data_seek, SEEK_SET ) || die "seek $!" ;
+	my @data_lines = <DATA> ;
+
+# test the array slurp
+
+	ok( eq_array( \@data_lines, \@slurp_lines ), 'list slurp of DATA' ) ;
+}
+
+__DATA__
+line one
+second line
+more lines
+still more
+
+enough lines
+
+we can't test long handle slurps from DATA since i would have to type
+too much stuff
+
+so we will stop here