Ok, what you've done there is to open the file and associate it with a filehandle. The filehandle is in $info which is why you're getting the value that you don't understand. To get the data from your file, you need to read from the filehandle using the file input operator.

while (<$info>) { # puts one line of file into $_
  print "$_";
}

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or, to get all of the data into an array

@file = <$info>;

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You might find it useful to read "perldoc perlopentut".

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In reply to Re: using Open by davorg
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