Aside, I've tried to re-write your code in a way I like it (which is slightly different than other ppl...
open (IN,"<" . "c:/tmp.txt") or die "Doh: $!"; # Use ()'s, and added o
+r die... sometimes that comes in hand when debugging.

while(<IN>){  # $_ is set to each line for each file.
  my $line = $_; # Take raw form of line
  $line =~ chomp $line; # chomp the line.
  if (length($line)){ # does line have non zero length?  (Sorta what y
+ou're doing.)
     print "$line\n"; 
  }
}
close IN; # Clean up.

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In reply to Re: WHILE and DEFINED problem by zakzebrowski
in thread WHILE and DEFINED problem by eldinkim

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