...moreover, you are not reading the whole file, you are just reading the first line.. the <FILEHANDLE> operator returns a single line if it is expected to return a scalar, and a list in list context.. so to read all your file, you must read it into an array: @lines = <FILE>; then iterate over that array..

The array is split with the $/ variable. which is \n by default.. you can undef this variable to read the whole file as a single string.

{
local $/; 
$text = <FILE>;
}
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this will read all the text into a single variable...

you should look into what solution suits you better.

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