In my following code snippet $! is not populated and the script does not die but the diamond operator is not looping me through the lines.

The diamond operator works fine if I move the file contents into __DATA__ and read from there.

I know that there has to be some strange action at a distance thing going on because I'm working on someone else's code, with tons of included files that declare all kinds of globals and this operation only fails some of the time.

Any hints about what I should be looking for? 

open (RESULTS, "<$tempfile") or die "Can't open results: $!";
    while(<RESULTS>){
       chomp;
       push @results, $_;
       print "$. $_\n";
    }

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Contents of $tempfile : 
55940
82665
24560
31102
31160
82725
26161
82685

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Absolutely perplexed, --
Clayton aka "Tex"

In reply to open works fine but not working by clscott

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