Hi Folks, I have a text file as below:
asdsadsd
/*
asds
wqeoiywe

qwe

qwewewe

oooooo

sadssdsa

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In order to process the above kind of text file, I wrote the following code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

package main;

my $file = './test_file';

my $line = inFile->new($file);

print $line->getLine();

package inFile;

sub new {
   my $class = shift;

   my $self = {
       fname  => shift,
       fp     => undef,
       lineno => 0,
       buff   => []
   };

   my $fname = $self->{fname};
   open($self->{fp},"< $fname") || die "failed to open the file $fname
+ ($!)\n";
   bless $self, $class;
}

sub getLine {
    my ($self) = @_;
    my $fp   = $self->{fp};
    my $buf  = $self->{buff};
    if (@{$buf}) {
        $self->{lineno}++;
        return shift @{$buf};
    }
    my $line;
    while ($line = <$fp>) {
        $self->{lineno}++;
        chomp $line;
        next if $line =~ /^\s*$/;
        return $line;
    }
    return undef;
}

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When I execute the above code, the result I get is only the first line
asdsadsd
But what I want to do is process the whole file and print each of the lines. Can you please point out what I am doing wrong?
--Jessica

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