Okay... I've been a perl monk for all of a few hours. I have been reading the O'Reilly press book and have made some progress. My basic question is I am trying to open a file and read in the contents and then close the file (haven't even tried to print it yet). The problem is that I get this error:

root@ns1 /root# ./script.pl
Global symbol "@data" requires explicit package name at ./script.pl line 7.
Execution of ./script.pl aborted due to compilation errors. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $filename = "/root/estimates.foo.com"; # declare filename

open FILE, $filename or die "Can't open file: $!/n";
@data=<FILE>;
close FILE;

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From everything that I've read, this looks fine. Any help would be appreciated!

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