line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 line 5 line 99 #### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; open(my $fh, "<", "test.txt") or die "cannot open < test.txt: $!"; while (my $row = <$fh>) { chomp $row; # do something print "line number $.\n"; } #### line number 1 line number 2 line number 3 line number 4 line number 5 line number 6