use strict; use warnings; open(my $fh, '<', "$file") or die $!;#use three argument open my $previous_line = q{}; #initially previous line would be empty while(my $current_line = <$fh>){ chomp; print"$current_line\n"; print"$previous_line\n"; #assign current line into previous line before it go to next line $previous_line = $current_line; } close($fh);