Hello WisDomSeeKer34,

Although the fellow Monks have replied to your question, I would like to add something extra.

On your question you are asking on how to process one file, and the monks have provided you the answer. I would like to add here that while loop is faster than straight opening a file in an array but also to add using a hash to keep track of the content of multiple files.

Sample of benchmark script and hash solution commented:

#!usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

# use Benchmark qw(:all) ; # WindowsOS
use Benchmark::Forking qw( timethese cmpthese ); # LinuxOS

my @preserved = @ARGV;

=Hash Of Arrays
my %HoA;
while (<>) {
    chomp;
    push @{ $HoA{$ARGV} }, $_;
} continue {
    close ARGV if eof;
}

print Dumper \%HoA;

__END__

$ perl test.pl in.txt out.txt
$VAR1 = {
          'in.txt' => [
                        'Sample of text line 1',
                        '',
                        'Sample of text line 2'
                      ],
          'out.txt' => [
                         'Sample of text line 1 second file',
                         '',
                         'Sample of text line 2 second file'
                       ]
        };
=cut

sub while_loop {
    my @output;
    @ARGV = @preserved; # restore original @ARGV
    while (<>) {
    chomp;
    push @output, $_;
    } continue {
    close ARGV if eof;
    }
    return;
}

sub file_to_array {
    @ARGV = @preserved; # restore original @ARGV
    chomp (my @data = <>);
    close ARGV if eof;
    return;
}

my $results = timethese(10000000, { Array => \&file_to_array,
                    While => \&while_loop }, 'none');
cmpthese( $results );

__END__

$ perl test.pl in.txt in2.txt
          Rate Array While
Array 115513/s    --   -4%
While 120846/s    5%    --
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Maybe you are not interested in opening multiple files (today) but what about (tomorrow)?

Update: One minor thing also to add here. Always always remember to close your file handles. Why? read this: Why do we need to close filehandles?.

Update2: Minor thing updating @ARGV to $ARGV in Hash Of Arrays (HoA) solution.

Hope this helps, BR.