Hi, I've created a very basic Perl script to generate combinations of words:

use strict; use warnings;
use Algorithm::Combinatorics qw(combinations);
my $strings = [qw(Word1 Word2 Word3 Word4)];
my $iter = combinations($strings, 2);
while (my $c = $iter->next) {
    print "@$c\n";
}

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How would I go about using words from a .txt file rather than manually adding them (GGGG CCCC...). I understand the basics of opening and reading (line-by-line) files in perl but I am not sure how to use this data within the above script. My .txt file is essentially:

Word1
Word2
Word3
Word4

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And so on. Can I use something like:

open (DATA, "text.txt");
@Test = <DATA>;
close DATA;

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To open/read it? Not sure how to then get Perl to use the loaded data. Can anybody offer any assistance? Thanks!

In reply to Using imported .txt file with Algorithms::Combinatorics by TJCooper

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