Hi, I'm new to perl and I'm trying to figure out how to open a text file and print it out to my HTML page- here are the 3 ways I have tried- I dont get an error- they just dont work 
open FILE, "<test.txt"; 
while(<FILE>)
{
push @lines,$_;
}
foreach(reverse @lines){
print $_;
}
close FILE;
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open(PASSWD,"test.txt") || die "Cant open: $!\n";
while(<PASSWD>)
{
    print "hello $_";
    print PASSWD;
}
close PASSWD;
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#while ($p = <PASSWD>)
#
#    chomp $p;
#    @fields= split(/:/,$p);
#    print "$fields[0]'s home directory is $fields[5]\n";
#}
#print "$fields = $#a - $[ + 1";
close PASSWD;
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