I have a file. I am opening it. My fancy filename does not feel like the issue, since the output from the snippet below is:
reading movement file in

I have evaled the input

However, I would also like to see the input. I would like it evaled! I don't even get out from the second print. I certainly am not benefitting from the eval (which will assign some wonderful values to some local variables-- the values having been Data::Dumper->Dump'ed previously).

I have tried many variations on this theme using foreach and while with the . operator. I can look at the file and it's wonderful. I added "or print 'error'" statements to my read statements and get nothing. Once I did manage to get it to print out the first line of the file, but that's it. Any idea what simple thing(s) I'm doing wrong here?
if( open( MVMT, "< $Config{'temp_data_file'}_$Config{'current_period'}
+" ))
{
    print "reading movement file in\n";

    my $input;
    undef $/;
    $input = <MVMT>;
    close MVMT;
    print "input: $input\n";
    eval $input;

    print "I have evaled the input\n";
}

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In reply to Why can I kind of read this file? by ichimunki

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