in reply to Help! Stuck on methods to count file size.

open my $fh, $filin || die $!;

is not the best way to open a file (check the precedence of operators). Try this:

open my $fh, "<", $filin or die $!;

or:

open (my $fh, "<", $filin) || die $!;

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Re^2: Help! Stuck on methods to count file size.
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 11, 2013 at 02:31 UTC
    It's really good suggestion, thank you for all the valuable suggestions.
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