[mp2] slurping files

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What's the best way to slurp a file in mod_perl 2? I'm trying to use:
$r->filename('somefile.txt');
$text = ${ $r->slurp_filename() };

But it returns:
Error: read 23 bytes, expected 512 ('(null)')

The file is 23 bytes -- is mod_perl expecting files to end in a null 
char?

- ben