I am writing my first perl program at the moment (see below). What I want to do is insert the contents of general.txt into the start of all of the files listed in a file called files.txt. The code below works for the first file listed in files.txt but I can't figure out how to get it to loop through all of the files in files.txt. I thought of counting the number of lines in files.txt and using a 'for' loop, but that's a bit inelegant. Can you help? S. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
open (TEXT,"general.txt") || die "Could not open file: $! \n";
$addthis=join("", <TEXT>);
close (TEXT);

open (FILES,"files.txt") || die "Could not open file: $! \n";

# Start to loop here??? or after the next group of statements?

$line=<FILES>;
chomp $line;

open (DATA,"$line") || die "Could not open file: $! \n";
$tothis=join("", <DATA>);
close (DATA);

$newrecord=$addthis.$tothis;

open (DATA,">$line") || die "Could not write to: $! \n";
print "$line\n";
print DATA $newrecord;
close (DATA);

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