in reply to Issue with read a file

Would love to help.

Need to see some kind of code to even have a decent guess.

So, my random thought for the day: Is there any chance you are forgetting to close the file(s) after you read it/them and Perl is getting confused in some way?

Otherwise, will need to see something. Can't imagine what you've done wrong if we don't know what you've done.

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Re^2: Issue with read a file
by dlal66 (Acolyte) on Sep 12, 2013 at 16:40 UTC
    I understand..thanks. I found the issue but I still do not have a solution. When reading the text files, one of the file I read in a string (by setting undef $/). Therefore when I go the next file and want to read it line by line, I am getting the issue. Now I am doing a $/='\n'; before I read the next file line by line. But this is not helping. The file is being read in one line. Any clues why? Thanks
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      Use double quotes. Single quotes do not interpolate. Or even better, set $/ locally.
      لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ
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        Thanks everyone! The following worked: $whole_file = do { local $/; <FILE> };
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