Read variables open my $vars, '<:utf8', "$Bin/vars.txt" or die $! ; while (<$vars>) { chomp; my ($key, $value) = split(/=/, $_); $vars{$key} = $value; } my $V1 = $vars{'V1'}; my $V2 = $vars{'V2'}; my $V3 = $vars{'V3'}; print "$V1\n"; print "$V2\n"; print "$V3\n"; close ($vars);