I highly suggest getting copies of Learning Perl, Programming Perl, and The Perl Cookbook.

To get you started, you can read files like this: 

open FH, '<', $filename or die ("Can't open $filename");
#FH is a "filehandle", and the '<' means "open in read mode" 
#('>' would be write)
while (<FH>) { #the angles around FH mean "read a line"
    work_with_the_line($_); 
    # $_ holds the current line in this case
    # work_with_the_line would be a subroutine defined by you
}
close FH;
#don't forget to close files!

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Much perl code is out there "in the wild", I highly suggest searching to see if someone has solved a similar problem, then reading and learning from their source.
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$me = rand($hacker{perl});

In reply to Re^3: Reading IP from a file and SNMP by radiantmatrix
in thread Reading IP from a file and SNMP by theroninwins

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