#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use File::Spec; use IO::File; use autodie; my $FH; my @lines; my $fn = 'D:\DATA\Software\MFLOW2\MOD_CL\INSTALL\MOD_CL\INSTALL\RDBMS\c$template.pks'; #my $fn = '..\todo.txt'; $fn = File::Spec->rel2abs( $fn ) ; print "file: $fn len=" . length($fn) . "\n"; open ($FH,'<',$fn); @lines=<$FH>; close($FH);