Thank you very much for triying to help me out. However I now get a permission error. "could not open /x02/bee/MY_FILE Permission denied at ./base_ports.pl line 9, <FH2> line 3103. but when I tried to open the file before going on to the regex section it just works, As in it opens up the files on the screen

my %users = %{user_paths()};
foreach my $user (keys %users) {
    if (-e "$users{$user}/MY_FILE") {
        open (FH2, "<$users{$user}/MY_FILE") or die "could not open $u
+sers{$user}/MY_FILE $!";
             while (my $line = <FH2>) {
             print $line;
                     }
    }
 }

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Also I tried commented out the die function and tried to riun and then I get that same "readline" error. Any thoughts?

In reply to Re^2: File reading with hashes by Bindo
in thread File reading with hashes by Bindo

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