shroh:

As the anonymous monk says, $MYFILE and MYFILE are two different things. You're opening your file with:

open( MYFILE, "E:/Temp/INYROHS/serverlist.txt") or die "Can't open '$s
+erverlist': $!";
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Using this method, you have to use MYFILE to read from the file, not $MYFILE. My code uses $FH because current practice in perl is to open files like this:

open my $MYFILE, '<', "E:/Temp/INYROHS/serverlist.txt" or die "Can't o
+pen '$serverlist': $!";
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There are several advantages to this method: It's easier to pass file handles to subroutines when you use lexical variables. Files will automatically close for you when they go out of scope (i.e. you get to the closing '}' of the block containing the definition.

...roboticus

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