Welcome to the wonderful World of Pragma. It's a Good Thing. As you continue in your quest to learn more about Perl, there will be more things to remember about convention, readability, and other such issues. One issue with the snippet above is that in order to adhere to convention, you will want to make filehandle names all caps and have an or die thingamagig when you open a file(handle). Another thing to improve readability (at least to me) is to use parentheses in open statements. Like this:

open(FOO, "foo.txt") or die "Couldn't open foo.txt: $!";

Pragma GOOD! Have fun.

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