Thanks...I was trying out the solution kenosis provided..I installed file-slurp in the package manager and have my two files in c:\test\ The slurp.pm is in c:\perl64\site\lib\file. I ran the perl script from c:\test\ and got the below error Use of uninitialized value $file_name in -e at C:/Perl64/site/lib/File/Slurp.pm line 116. Use of uninitialized value $file_name in sysopen at C:/Perl64/site/lib/File/Slur p.pm line 193. Use of uninitialized value $file_name in concatenation (.) or string at C:/Perl6 4/site/lib/File/Slurp.pm line 194. read_file '' - sysopen: No such file or directory at c:\test\test_perl.pl line 9. i am more of a batch script person and not into much of perl. please advise.

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