When I run this as: 
dark314@somebox:~/Perl$ ./tac.pl test
zyxwvutsrqpon

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I only get 13 characters... the test file is simply a file with letters a - z, it should print all characters backwards
I'm sure there is something wrong here! 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
#perl excercise, reverse cat...


my @file;


while (<>) {
    chomp;
    push @file, $_;

}

foreach (@file) {   my $test = pop (@file); print $test;  }
print "\n";

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------------------------------------UPDATE-------------------------------------


Thanks. I am aware of reverse() lol. The idea was to use push() and pop(). I guess I understand now my problem, using a foreach there evaluates the size of @file each time I think, and by the time it gets halfway thru it believes that it has gone thru the entire set? ?? how confusing. I will use while from now on

In reply to Using Push and Pop. by dark314

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