in reply to Reading in Text File and skipping lines

The <FILEHANDLE> construct is actually a shortcut for reading in a line from the filehandle and storing it in $_. By effectively calling <FILEHANDLE> two times in your block you are only appending every other line. Try this: 
while( <TEMPLATE> )
      {       
           $outputpage .= $_;
      }

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Re: Re: Reading in Text File and skipping lines
by shemp (Deacon) on Nov 07, 2002 at 22:33 UTC
    This is a great example of why i discourage the use of $_ and other implicit variables. It perpetuates misunderstanding of what is really going on. Do others feel that this shorthand leads to confusion, or am i too anal?
    I like to go one step further in reading files: 
    while( my $line = <TEMPLATE> ) {
    $outputpage .= $line;
}

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    or even 
    my @lines = <TEMPLATE>;
foreach my $line (@lines) {
    $outputpage .= $line;
}

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      Do others feel that this shorthand leads to confusion, or ...

      It's only confusing until you get it. =) After that, it leads to simplification and reduced clutter in scripts.

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