Mostly for personal curiosity reasons:

Many modern languages provides something called interator (sic?), ... it will be really cool, if you can write this in Python.

Since this isn't Python, but Perl, where
my $file = './test_file';

#my $line = inFile->new($file);
open (my $FILE, '<', $file) 
   || die "failed to open $fname ($!)\n";

while (<$FILE>) {
#print $line->getLine();
    print;
}
close $FILE || die "failed to open $fname ($!)\n";

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Should suffice.

This may not be substantial for a short exercise, but if this is a base for a bigger application, it could cause it to bloat. Any reason why you picked this way to "Do It"?

Software speaks in tongues of man; I debug, therefore I code.

In reply to Re^2: text file reading by Erez
in thread text file reading by noobee

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